Creative Writing I - START WRITING

What is Creative Writing? How does one write creatively? Find out! Our Creative Writing I course has been successfully completed by hundeds of students, and has been proven over the past seven years to jump start any student in the direction of being able to fully express their own creativity in words. Learn the basics contained in this very simple starter course, written by Emmy and Dramalogue award-winning author. Complete with test and answer guide, and a very useful teacher's guide with great advices and exercises to help students through any difficulties. Start writing today!

Our Creative Writing I course is called "START WRITING!", and that's what it accomplishes. It provides the students with key concepts in writing, defining many of the most important terms, and starting the student in a highly creative direction unique to our curriculum. The course comes with a Teacher's Guide, which will assist the teacher at any point where the student may possibly run into a problem. There are no additional purchases needed to do this course s the course materials are self-contained: the Study Guide, Teacher's Guide, test and answer guide. This course has proven remarkably effective with students of all ages above nine who are reticent to write, and is a tremendous success with students already interested in writing! Generally, students take between 25-40 hours to complete this course.

Creative Writing II - DEVELOPING IDEAS!

For the student who wants to work on getting more and better writing ideas! A specialized course where the student expands rapidly into a creative writer. (Generally for younger students.) Developed by a often published and produced writer, especially for home school use!

It was discovered in delivering Creative Writing courses to children that some of them have difficulty thinking in abstract terms, a vital skill to a writer. This course was created to handle this specific problem. A must-do bridge from Creative Writing I to III for younger students, or any student who wants to refine their ability to create. Around a semester of work. NOT NEEDED by students who have no problem developing new ideas, and imagining things that "aren't real". Those students should do our Creative Writing III course. Creative Writing II requires no additional materials. This course takes 40-60 hours generally to complete.

Creative Writing III - THE WRITER'S TOOLS

The course which begins an intensive study of the art and craft of writing. Plots, characters, dialogue and action...break down and master the creative elements that result in great writing!

The third Creative Writing course is a lengthy one, which starts to provide the student a very complete understanding of the mechanics of a well-written story, while encouraging the student to experience his or her own creativity in a remarkable manner. It is again accompanied by a Teacher's Guide (almost a writer's course for a professional writer, unto itself), with methods to unstick a stuck student. The Teacher's Guide also contains the Test and Answer Key for the end of the course. This course requires no additional materials.

Creative Writing IV - EMPLOYING THE WRITER'S TOOLS

Master the skills of creative writing! Through many carefully constructed concepts and exercises, develop your ability to write great works!

The fourth Creative Writing Course has the student apply the skills mastered in the third course, and provides the student with additional writing tools. By the end of this course, the student is authoring stories of 1,500-2,000 words in length, with expertise. The student will have mastered all the essential skills needed to write convincing and interesting stories. (In the pilot program, students who could not confront writing 10 word-long stories at the start of the first course were very capably writing very lengthy and wonderful stories in excess of the requirements by the end of the fourth course.) This course is accompanied by a Teacher's Guide which also contains the test for the course, and its answer key. At least a semester to a school year of work. This course requires no additional materials.

Creative Writing V - THE FIELD

Discover the many ways a writer can make a living! Learn the basics of novelizations, playwriting, screenwriting, PR (public relations), and other types of writing. What sort of writer would you like to be? Find out TODAY!

The fifth Creative Writing Course presumes that the student now knows how to write well. This course teaches the student about the different areas in "the field" (the world) where a living can be made as a writer. These include the writing of poetry, lyrics, public relations, screenplays, plays, television series, and creative nonfiction, or technical writing. The student is exposed to the most important and basic tools and concepts in each area, and writes new works that develop his or her expertise in each of these possible areas of employment for a writer. The student is also exposed to a few key tools used by writers to secure work. This course comes with a Teacher's Guide (again, this reads almost like the second part of a professional writers course), which will help the teacher keep students moving. A semester to a year of study. This course requires no additional materials.

Creative Writing VI - Marketing & PR Master's Course

A Creative Writing Home School Master's Course ( Creative Writing VI ) from Connect The Thoughts . Authored by a professional Senior Copywriter (a person who writes advertising and marketing plans), this extremely thorough course trains the writer (or BUSINESS PERSON!) to accurately, professionally create Promotional and Marketing plans and materials. Based largely around many books authored by legendarey marketing masterminds Al Ries, Laura Ries and Jack Trout, as well as award winning economist Paul Pilzer, this lengthy, profoundly detailed course helps the student understand all of the most important and proven concepts and skills needed to generate powerful businesses with clearly focused, undeniable marketing schemes and promotional approaches.

What do successful businesses know about how to position and brand their products? What would YOU need to know to successfully market a product...or even select which poroducts to try and sell? A course which will take the student several hundred hours to truly master. and provide the student many invaluable skills and understandings. Indispensible to ANYONE intending to run a business or sell a product!