Students come together for creative writing and explore different storytelling and work strategies under expert guidance
In our online creative writing class, students meet who love writing and inventing stories. Students from the B.A. Creative Industries Management can choose several modules on creative writing and this one often is the first step into this world. In November and December, they practice and discuss how to create characters, compelling plots and suspense in short formats. Also, the individual approaches to the writing process are explored in detail. Did you know that some people like to plan before they write, but others are much more productive if they don’t plan at all?
In and between classes, we write a lot, explore basic rules of story-telling and become enthusiastic about a broad range of creativity-techniques. Step by step the students’ texts focus on character development, point of views and on the functions of time and space in building a story. Also, students get to know and practice up to 15 different feedback techniques that can be adapted to a broad range of professional situations beyond text-feedback. This course gives everyone the opportunity to discover story telling skills – and why they are useful in the creative industries, even if you don’t want to become a professional writer.
The format was developed by Prof. Dr. Nadja Sennewald, a writing scholar, writer and program director of our B.A. Kreatives Schreiben und Texten (German creative writing program). This semester, many students address the pandemic in their creative output. If you want to see some of the results: We’ll post them at the end of the term on our blog: kreativesschreibenberlin.de
Professor of Writing Studies, Study programme director B.A. Creative Writing (German)
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