A great tonic for the brain!
A great tonic for the brain!Yes - the level was well balanced. I am used to writing, especially academic pieces - this was an engaging, well paced set of mental exercise with alot of different writing angles covered. I found it very thought provoking and stimulating.

I was amazed that I could actually write a story at the end of the course. I certainly was not confident in the beginning and sometimes found the instructions quite intimidating. However, the tips and guidelines helped me to create a character and build a story around her. The reviews by other writers were encouraging while their criticisms were cRead more about review stating Start Writing Fictiononstructive. Thank you Future Learn!

I’ve been writing on and off for a lot of years but decided in January that New Year might be a good time to go back to the start. I wasn’t disappointed with this course, which started very simply but built on itself, week on week. It contained many useful pieces of advice and I really enjoyed interacting with the other members of the course. It wRead more about review stating An excellent back-to-basics courseas also very useful for getting back into the writing habit, setting aside a block of time every day. If I had any criticism, it would be that a lot of the course was based on Novakovich’s treatise on writing, which is good, but I would have liked to have seen some other perspectives explored as well.

I liked it so much, I did it twiceI did this course a few years ago and loved it so much I decided to do it again. This time I composed different characters and different situations.
It's a great course. Each time, I found it challenging but not impossible, and great fun as well. I love the interaction with other participants. I'll probably do it again in a few years.