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Seven-day, self-paced online writing courses
Seven-day, self-paced online writing courses
Writers have to read a lot, write a lot, and meet deadlines. That's also the online learning experience at Storywriting School. On Day 1 of your class, you'll have access to coursework in the form of text lectures and writing exercises. You'll have seven days to go through them at your own pace. While you accomplish those exercises, a writing coach will review your work and give feedback as necessary.
Inclusions
Inclusions
You'll do the coursework at your own pace, but as with most writing projects, you'll have a deadline.
The moment you join the class in Google Classroom, you'll have access to all the coursework (text lectures and writing exercises), which you're meant to go through at your own schedule while aiming to finish within seven days. This mimics the typical working conditions of a writer: you have control over how you get your writing done, but your boss or client will likely have deadlines for you to meet.
As you accomplish your coursework, a writing coach will review you your writing exercises. Your Coach will give you feedback, as needed, pertaining to your accomplishment of the exercise objectives.
Meet the deadline, receive a digital certificate.
If you finish all the required exercises on or before the deadline, we'll send you a digital certificate. In case you don't finish by the deadline, you may continue working on the exercises on your own, without receiving feedback from your Coach. (Note: We also allow you to pay for a reassessment if you finish later, but we'd really rather you finished on time!)
Apply what you've learned by submitting your draft or outline for a story consultation.
After the end of your seven-day online course, you'll have 28 days to submit a draft or outline (maximum 2,500 words) for a complimentary story consultation. We will have 2-3 story consultants comment on your work.
Your Online Writing Workshop
Your Online Writing Workshop
After you register and pay, here's what you can expect from an online writing class:
Beginning the Class
Beginning the Class
Sometime after 12:00AM GMT/UTC+0:00 (8:00AM Philippine Time) on the first day of class, your Coach sends you an email with the Google Classroom details and other briefing points.
You join the class by following the instructions in the email. The course content—text lectures and writing exercises—is under the Coursework tab of Google Classroom.
Your writing Coach gets in touch with you regarding a schedule for a coaching call. In the call, your Coach tries to understand your context and personal goals, and notes potential ways for the class experience to be customized to meet your needs. Note: You may opt out of the coaching call. You may also choose to do this coaching call after your course is finished.
Core Period
Core Period
Days 1-7 (Published course dates)
You go through the coursework at your own pace; some students prefer to do a lot of work over the weekend, while others spread the work out across the class schedule. Note: We encourage those who are studying or working full-time to put in 6-12 hours of work on Days 1 and 2.
As you go through the coursework, you post any questions you may have in Google Classroom. Your Coach responds to students' posts at least once a day and gives feedback on your writing exercises as needed.
If you finish all the required coursework by the published end date ("Core Period") of the class, you receive your digital certificate, plus a bonus gift for finishing on time. Your Coach does this within seven days of the end of the Core Period.
Grace Period
Grace Period
Days 8-14
If you don't finish on time, you're given a seven-day Grace Period to finish all the coursework. Assuming you meet this deadline, your Coach sends you your digital certificate the following week, but without the bonus gift.
Note: We give this Grace Period gratuitously because... life happens! However, we do encourage an early finish, hence the bonus gift for those who finish within the Core Period.
Another note: Students who are enrolled in bootcamp mode are not entitled to the Grace Period.
After Your Deadline
After Your Deadline
Story Consultation
Story Consultation
After the end of your seven-day online course, you'll have 28 days to submit a draft or outline (maximum 2,500 words) for a complimentary story consultation. You will also be asked to submit the following:
Logline (You'll learn how to write one in your online course.)
What you like about your output
What you don't like about your output
What happens to my online course's content after my deadline?
What happens to my online course's content after my deadline?
After all the deadlines are done, you will remain in the Google Classroom class as long as the coach is still offering the course. You may continue viewing the lectures and your output.
If you did not finish your course on time, you may continue working on the exercises on your own. However, your coach will no longer review your output or respond to your comments after your last deadline. If you complete all the exercises and would like to receive a certificate of completion, you may email your coach to ask if he/she could reassess your work. Reassessment will entail a fee and will depend on the coach and his/her assessment rate at that point.
Storywriting School or your coach makes no guarantees that our classes will remain available indefinitely. Google has control over the policies that govern their products, e.g. Classroom, Drive. Storywriting School might also discontinue using Google products in the future. So, while you may access course content even after your deadline has passed, we still encourage our students to finish the course within the schedule or at least within a month.
On students aged 8-12
On students aged 8-12
Our courses each have a minimum age requirement (please refer to the respective course page for that detail). This means that the lessons' concepts will be apt for that age and older, as proven in our live, face-to-face classes. However, our online courses are self-paced and require the use of technology. We've seen that our younger students have difficulty managing their online coursework on their own. They generally need a lot of handholding, which our writing coaches cannot provide. Therefore, we require students of this age to be accompanied by a parent, guardian, or tutor to give them a better chance of finishing the class.
The parent, guardian, or tutor will need to initiate having the child go through the lessons, i.e. reading the lectures and answering the writing exercises. Also, since the courses are written to benefit a wide audience, some concepts may require some explanation so that a child will grasp them better.
To keep the experience pleasant for the child, please make sure that he/she is truly eager to learn how to write stories. Without this, the class will feel like a chore. Our young students who are eager to learn have a smoother experience. They often do better than their adult counterparts because they don't have the bad writing habits that grown-ups have acquired. They usually love reading stories and, many times, have attempted writing their own already.
All dates and times follow GMT/UTC+0
London: GMT/UTC+0 or +1
Manila: GMT/UTC+8
New York: GMT/UTC-5 or -4
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