WRITING COURSE: NARRATIVE FEATURE WRITING
11 modules
104 lessons
16 writing exercises
Audio for every lesson (coming soon)
Instant feedback on every writing exercise
In online writing courses, you usually don’t get any feedback on your exercises, or you have to wait for a reply. With ViaScripta, you get your feedback right away, on every exercise, as often as you like.
ViaScripta always knows what you’re learning. If an exercise is about tension, it looks at the tension in your writing, not at whether your piece is well written in general.
You get pointers on your own sentences: what’s already working, where it goes wrong, what you can do differently, and why. You don’t have to get it right the first time. No one’s looking over your shoulder.
Feedback
The feature: the most powerful genre in journalism.
No other journalistic genre combines so many skills in a single piece: observing, interviewing, structuring, writing. But how do you turn all that material into a feature that takes your reader to where you were? This course teaches you how.
You build scenes from your own observation. You ask the questions that turn up the details your feature lives on. And you write features in which your reader smells, hears, and sees what you experienced.
What You’ll Learn
Finding the right subject
You find the concrete, human story in every subject. Not “health care,” but one nurse on one night. The general becomes visible in the particular.
Preparing thoroughly for your story
You know what you need to know before you head out. You research your subject, prepare your questions, and know what to watch for.
Observing like a feature writer
You look closely, note sensory details, and select on the spot what carries meaning. Not writing everything down. Writing down the right things.
Interviewing for features
You ask the questions that turn up concrete details and specific memories, not just opinions. You listen for what isn’t said and keep asking until you have the material your piece needs.
Building scenes from observation
You reconstruct what you experienced with setting, action, and dialogue. You show reality instead of summarizing it.
Structuring your material
You shape your notes into a story with a clear through line. You know where you start, where you’re building to, and where you stop.
Writing with a recognizable tone
You write features that sound like you. You’re present in your piece without taking over the story.
Working ethically and responsibly
You know the limits of what you can describe, quote, and reconstruct. You know what you owe your sources, and you act on it.
Your first feature starts here.
You want to write features that take your reader to places they can’t go themselves. The Narrative Feature Writing course gives you the techniques to turn your observations and conversations into a piece your reader gets lost in. Start with module 1 today.
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