ONLINE WRITING COURSE

Course designed for people of all ages, backgrounds, educational levels and writing ability.

Osborne Porter Literary Services offer an Online Writing Course which includes a copy of the book and CD Getting Published – Art, Science or Luck? by Helen Osborne and Ginny Porter.

“Our course has been compiled for people of all ages, backgrounds, educational levels and writing ability, to develop and hone their writing expertise,” they explain. “The Online Writing Course was conceived as a form of training for prospective writers who may live too far away from any Workshops and formal Training Facilities.”

Training is divided into eight workshops comprising notes and exercises for each workshop. The first five workshops cover writing fiction short stories for magazines and the exercise for Workshop 5 is to submit a complete short story and send it for assessment using the techniques taught. The final three workshops start the student on a fiction novel.

Getting Published is an interactive guide to writing and getting work published. This book has received excellent reviews and has sold well in South Africa and other parts of the world. It contains a CD full of additional exercises and creativity modules that will complement the course. As writers work their way through the course they will be guided to relevant sections of the book which will enhance the topics being worked on.

Each exercise is assessed by a professional writing tutor, who will return the writer’s work to them with comments and corrections that will assist them in improving their writing and style. Only the exercises prescribed in the Online Workshops 1-8 will be assessed. Exercises undertaken from the book or CD are for writers’ own benefit and will not be assessed.

Cost of the full Online Writing Course, including the book, Getting Published – Art, Science or Luck? is R1,500. More details from Osborne Porter Literary Services. More information on email: info@osborne-porter.com or helenosborne@talktalk.net or visit www.osborne-porter.com