Crafting Beautiful Sentences with Emily Bitto

Join award-winning author Emily Bitto for this empowering self-paced course that will help you to improve your writing on a sentence level.

Regardless of form or style, all writers work with words and sentences as the basic units of prose. This course provides practical strategies to reinvigorate your writing practice, allowing you to write more freely and imaginatively, avoid cliché, understand the effects of various sentence-level choices on your prose style, and edit your work and the work of others more effectively. The course involves a combination of mini lectures, examples, writing and editing exercises to help you elevate your sentences from ordinary to sublime, with a particular focus on fiction writing.

You'll learn:

• To better understand what makes a good (or a bad) sentence
• The nuts and bolts of basic grammar
• To better understand the impact that sentence-level decisions can have on the tone and voice of your writing, and how to achieve particular effects for your readers
• The important difference between the drafting and editing stages in terms of your approach to writing on the sentence level
• Practical skills, techniques and exercises that you can continue to apply long after the end of the course

Scroll down to see the full course curriculum and a list of frequently asked questions.

"This course has provided me with a powerful toolkit for improving my fiction writing on a sentence level. I feel a greater level of confidence when it comes to crafting evocative imagery, and self editing. I now understand the difference between a great sentence and a poorly crafted or amateur sounding sentence. Thank you Emily!"

"Emily is a fantastic teacher who concisely conveys her thoughts and ideas. The content was easy to understand, with many "aha!" moments sprinkled throughout the course. My understanding of sentences, as well as of my own writing style has improved as a result of taking this course. Thank you Emily!"

"Crafting beautiful sentences' gave practical advice about elevating writing through being more creative and precise at the sentence level with clear guidance about putting the tips into practice. The activities really challenged my use of cliches! I can see improvements in my writing straight away."

"I bought the bundle of creative writing courses and Crafting Beautiful Sentences seemed like the logical place to start this new phase of my writing career! Now I look back at my earlier writing and wish I had done this course ten years ago."

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