Creative Writing

This was the first subject of the Creative Writing Course I took and I recommend it to anyone who is starting to write.

I enjoyed every course in the Creative Writing Specialization.

The only thing that cost this course one start from me was that the peers are mostly not qualified for this type of work, and considering this is a peer graded course, if there are errors in your writing, maybe you should take a course on English grammar and vocabulary rather than an advanced creative writing specialization.

A great introduction to the world of creative writing.

Not bad for a rookie :) good to know Excellent Introduction to Creative Writing!

As someone new to creative writing I found this class informative, challenging and inspiring.

This was a great start to the creative writing specialization!

This course managed to open me up to my creative writing side after a long period of feeling blocked and being stuck.

The review from fellow classmates helped me alot in improving my creative writing skills.

I have taken a number of other courses in creative writing elsewhere, and other courses on Coursera - this is the first one I have actively chosen to stop because I just wasn't engaging with it - either for education or for enjoyment.

A great course, I profited more from this course than from the other Creative Writing courses.

Thank you Mister B. Skyhorse for organizing this introduction to creative writing and for sharing your many years of work in the field of writing.

Prof. Brando Skyhorse is clear and his teachings easy to follow and to understand.

Easy to follow.

A really nice, easy to follow and well paced course.

Very analytical and easy to follow.

The prerecorded segments are very good and easy to follow.

I found the teaching videos very easy to follow and understand.

Thanks ;) Easy to follow and exercises were helpful to better understand the classes and to motivate towards more interesting writting.

The course work is easy to follow, full of great information and very clear.

The course is easy to follow and informative.

Easy to follow, great examples, clearly explained, engaging presentations and assignments, tips from the experts; all those things made this one course I couldn't "put down".

Very good lessons to learn I love it and very easy to follow.

The course modules are helpful and easy to follow.

Highly recommend it.

Highly recommend it if you want to start learning more about writing.

I would highly recommend it to new writers, old authors, editors, and anyone interested in stories.

Really enjoyed it and it broadened my writing skills The exceptional teaching provided by the instructor really simplified the art of creative writing for me , highly recommend it for anyone who wants to pursue the field.

I highly recommend it for those who want to learn the basics of writing a story.

Looking forward to the next!

Looking forward for the next part of this course.

my passion for writing has only increased, and i'm looking forward to the rest of the specialization!

Thank you so much for this opportunity, and I'm looking forward to the next courses in the specialization!

Looking forward to the next course!

They really got me looking forward to writing every week.

A little too heavy on Harry Potter references.

There were too many comparisons to Harry Potter and various three and five act formulas.

So it is no surprise that I was appalled by Mr. Skyhorse's strong focus on, and praise of, the Harry Potter book series.

The instructor lost me when he said that Harry Potter was great writing and unfortunately this was very early on in the course.

I liked how Brando used Harry Potter as an example of structure because I know that series well (and probably most people do).

My only complaint - the assignments were so structured that they were tedious.

My only disappointment is that many genres, although follow a similar story structure, each genre has genre-specific elements.

My only complaint is that there are a great number of people auditing the course and we had to create our own google community to share and get feedback as the assignments and feedback sections of the course are locked for all of the non-paying students.

My only regret is that I wish teachers reviewed your work for the $49 monthly subscription.

Also, the concept of "rising action" was not sufficiently explained and one of the assignments was a little lame.

After completing this course successfully I still don't really understand what a rising action is exactly and the phrase "your story must include at least ten sentences of rising action" in the final task made almost no sense to me.

I think it would have been more useful to keep reinforcing the Rising Action-Scene structure and ABDCE structure with more solid examples.

In addition, rather than being able to learn from reading the writing of others, I found for the most part that the pieces submitted by others were very lacking.If you take this course, know that it will provide you some good information about writing fiction, but the feedback you receive on your assignments will not help you learn.

I do wish that at least one of the assignments could be reviewed by the actual professor for feedback, rather than just peers.

It has been a great course that helped me better understand the basics of plot, structure, "scenes", building characters and trying to show rather than tell a story Good starting module that gives some simple techniques to improve writing.

It is all very useful :) The only thing which I perhaps did not like was the quality of some reviews, which I felt were rushed.

The only thing I , let's say, dislike is that we have no feedback from an instructor.

This course was really useful and Mr. Skyhorse's way of explaining in the videos was so good Perfect basic information for me.

Thank you Mr. Skyhorse and the Coursera team.

I would have preferred that my work was reviewed by mentors, and not by peers.