Tutorial 1. Can Anyone Learn Creative Writing?
Topic 1: Introduction
Topic 2: The benefits of being a writer
Topic 3: Outlets for publication
Topic 4: Which genre?
Topic 5: Developing your own voice
Topic 6: The writer’s toolbox
Topic 7: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 2. Creative Writing for Pleasure and Profit
Topic 1: Dealing with what stops you before you even get the firstword down — fear
Topic 2: Inspiration or perspiration
Topic 3: First of all, let’s discover what you know
Topic 4: Appendix: basic grammar points
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 3. Writing for Different Genres
Topic 1: Your writing direction
Topic 2: Planning a novel
Topic 3: Memoirs, autobiographies and biographies
Topic 4: Fiction and non-fiction: appreciating the important difference
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 4. Finding Your Point of View
Topic 1: Point of view
Topic 2: The various uses of tense
Topic 3: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 5. Which Comes First: Character or Plot?
Topic 1: Character driven or plot driven?
Topic 2: Where do characters come from?
Topic 3: Major and minor characters
Topic 4: The internal view versus the
external view
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 6. Writing Dialogue is Easy
Topic 1: Talking first: reasons for using dialogue
Topic 2: Moving the story forward
Topic 3: Dialects and unusual speech patterns
Topic 4: Setting out dialogue
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 7. Plotting a Novel
Topic 1: Plot—is this another word for design?
Topic 2: Conflict
Topic 3: Drawing up a plan
Topic 4: The blueprint: basic structures
Topic 5: Design—arranging the story
Topic 6: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 8. How to Create Atmosphere and Mood
Topic 1: Place
Topic 2: Creating atmosphere and mood with language
Topic 3: Real places, real names?
Topic 4: Symbolic meaning in description
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 9. Make Your Words Work
Topic 1: Voice is different from voices
Topic 2: Style: making your work original and your words sing
Topic 3: Imagery, metaphors and similes
Topic 4: Pacing yourself
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 10. Writing Your Own Life Story
Topic 1: Autobiography and memoir
Topic 2: Biography
Topic 3: Recommended books for this tutorial
Topic 4: What you have learned in this tutorial

Tutorial 11. Writing Poetry
Topic 1: Poetry—is it still relevant now?
Topic 2: Inspiration
Topic 3: Learning the craft
Topic 4: Different types of poems
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 12. How to write a Bestseller
Topic 1: What is a bestseller
Topic 2: The challenge of romance fiction
Topic 3: Historical fiction
Topic 4: Making crime pay—from writing not murder
Topic 5: Fantasy and science fiction
Topic 6: Horror stories
Topic 7: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 13. Screenplays, Stage Plays, Television
Topic 1: Stage plays
Topic 2: Writing for radio
Topic 3: Screenplays for film and television
Topic 4: Film, making your mark on the big screen
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 14. Writing Techniques for the Market
Topic 1: Fellowships and prizes
Topic 2: Writing non-fiction
Topic 3: Ghost writing
Topic 4: Finding your way around the internet
Topic 5: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 15. Copy Editing Techniques
Topic 1: Starting with the first draft
Topic 2: Revision or structural editing
Topic 3: Now you have the story straight, what about the characters?
Topic 4: Point of view and voice
Topic 5: Dialogue, description and action
Topic 6: Style; simple and elegant
Topic 7: Copyediting
Topic 8: Professional editors and assessors
Topic 9: What a publisher looks for
Topic 10: Tutorial summary

Tutorial 16. The Business Side of Writing
Topic 1: Where do you go from here?
Topic 2: Agents—do you need one?
Topic 3: Submitting short stories or poems to magazines
Topic 4: Choosing the right publisher for your book
Topic 5: The role of the manuscript reader
Topic 6: Editing: copyediting; proofreading
Topic 7: Self publishing
Topic 8: Tax matters
Topic 9: Tutorial summary