Online course: Book Author, Creative Writing or Journalism, optional + distance learning tutor, at Laudius (save up to 92%*)

Description

Creative writing without blocks as a journalist, novelist, or children’s and young adult author in an online course Learning to write seemed so easy in elementary school, but now in professional life? Suddenly, it becomes incredibly difficult to put your best ideas down on paper or screen with the right words. Anyone who envisions a future as a novelist, children’s book author, or journalist will learn the fundamentals of writing and research with this Laudius voucher. This includes vividly describing feelings atmospheres, and characters, overcoming writer’s block, and exploring various stylistic devices and forms of presentation. In addition, it examines the rights and responsibilities of journalists, press and public relations work, and the use of the internet. Learning to write can be quite simple – when you have access to learning materials from professionals.

Contents

• Creative Writing

  • Methods for Finding and Developing Ideas
  • Character development, plot, narrative perspective, scene structure, dialogues, suspense building
  • vividly and compellingly depicting spaces, feelings, atmosphere, etc.
  • Testing of literary devices: language register, style, sound and rhythm
  • Edit and compress texts on various levels
  • Methods of humorous writing using the example of satire and parody
  • Examination of text forms such as the short story, short story, fable, novel, fairy tale, novel with regard to their characteristic

• Children and Youth Book Author

  • Ideas: Notebooks, Letters
  • Techniques: Brainstorming, Mind mapping, Freewriting, Clustering
  • Overcoming writing blocks
  • Komik in the children’s book
  • Images and illustrations in the children’s book
  • Organization and structuring of the writing process
  • Choice of the narrative perspective
  • Course of action and Masterplots
  • Figure development
  • Languages in the Children’s and Youth Book

• Journalism

  • Framework conditions, handling of target groups, broad lines of various media, technical terms, structure of a publishing house
  • Rights and duties within the framework of journalistic activity
  • Importance of Ethics in Journalism
  • Newspaper and Magazine
  • Use and shape headlines, pre-tension and captions
  • Handling quotes and foreign speech
  • Forms of representation in journalism (such as reportage, interview)
  • various markets (such as economic journalism, local journalism)
  • the various jobs of the journalist (such as TV journalist, radio journalist, online journalist)
  • Criteria and methods for a good search
  • Press and Public Relations
  • the use of the Internet for the work of the journalist
  • working as a free journalist/free journalist

All references to the course Creative Writing can be seen here. All learning content Creative writing available here.

All references to the course Children’s and Youth Book Author are available here. All learning content Child and Youth Book Authors can be viewed here.

All references to journalism can be seen here. All learning content journalism can be seen here.

• Care time by Laudius totals 36 months
• general information about self-learning here
• digital spa documents

Remote teacher support (only when booking the appropriate option)

• personal care, R Submission tasks, corrections, R Subsidiary work, certificate and qualified certificate R 
• when booking the distance course with care, there is free access to the online library (100 other digital textbooks from different areas) and the lecture function

Important information

Valid until 31.01.2026 for registration and redemption of the voucher.

The course can be activated at any time within 36 months.

Detachability:

On www.laudius.de/groupon. Enter the corresponding fields during the registration process.

Customer support via email to: info@laudius.de or by phone at 0800 / 10 581 05 or via WhatsApp at +49 2834 / 943 020.

Further information:

Course, templates and customer support in German.

When booking with remote teacher care, the course includes the final exam and certificate.

Please note:

Only 1 voucher can be redeemed per course participation.

Several vouchers available. Only valid for the purchased option. No further fees. Not combinable with other discounts. No cash payment, no part payment and no repayment of balance. Applies only to online resolution.

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