Fiction Writing Level 3 Award – QLS

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    Description

    This online Fiction Writing course is designed for anyone considering professional authoring for a variety of media including books, short stories, radio and television.

    The objective of this self-study course is to provide a comprehensive guide to the skills and techniques of writing fiction successfully and will enable students to study a variety of styles.

    The online fiction writing course also examines practical aspects of getting published plus the essential elements of both short stories and novels.

    Students will cover the following topics:

    • Introduction
    • The Short Story
    • The Theme
    • The Plot
    • The Characters
    • Getting Started
    • Title & Dialogue
    • Practical Details
    • Writing a Novel

    Qualification: Fiction Writing Level 3 Award – QLS
    Support: 1-year support included
    Start Date: Anytime – We enrol 365 days a year 
    Endorsed Specification

    Course Syllabus

    Learners will complete 8 units of study in total as listed below.


    8 tutor marked assignment to complete

    1 – The Short Story
    How to study and analyse it
    Studying the market
    Overseas markets
    Writing is a business
    How do I find ideas?
    How do I present my manuscript?
    Where do I find facts?

    2 – The Theme
    Choosing a theme
    The basic emotion
    First or third person?
    Get out of the way!
    Reader identification
    Setting
    Style

    3 – The Plot
    Plotting
    Accuracy
    The plot scheme
    A twist in the tale
    Finding a plot
    Conflict, tension & Suspense
    Balance and pace

    4 – The Characters
    Your chief character
    Names
    Can people be plots?
    Characterisation
    Motives
    Mannerisms
    Minor Characters
    Hero, Heroine, Villain or Clown
    How people operate

    5 – Getting Started
    How to start?
    The plot thickens
    Stuck?
    Handling Transitions
    How to end?
    Your work plan
    Rules are made to be broken

    6 –Title & Dialogue
    Choosing a title
    Writing Dialogue
    Grammar, dialect and slang
    Types of a short story
    The serial

    7 – Practical Details
    Copyright
    The laws of defamation
    Agents and “Vanity Publishers”
    Keeping records
    Payment
    Income Tax
    Expenses
    Writing for radio
    Writing for television
    Presenting a TV drama

    8 – Writing a Novel
    Structure
    Action, Thriller, Mystery
    Science Fiction
    Crime & Detective novels
    Historical novels
    Serious novels
    Final points

    Entry Requirements

    There are no previous qualifications required. However, students looking to enrol onto this course should meet the following criteria:

    Be aged 16 Years or above
    Possess a solid knowledge of the English language
    Have access to a PC and the internet for the duration of the whole course
    Basic computer skills: e.g. Word processing, emailing, uploading documents etc
    Have a genuine desire to succeed

    Course Duration

    This course comes with 12 months of support included:

    Guided Learning Hours (GLH) – 60 Hours
    Total Qualification Time (TQT) – 80 Hours

    On average, learners will complete this course within 7 months

    Course Outcome

    ABC Quality License Scheme – Certificate of Achievement

    At the end of this course, successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from ABC Awards and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the details all of the units you have completed as part of your course).

    The course has been endorsed under the ABC Awards’ Quality Licence Scheme & is offered in partnership with Kendal Publishing. This means that Kendal Publishing has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet certain quality criteria.  The completion of this course alone does not lead to an Ofqual regulated qualification but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills towards regulated qualifications in the future.

    The unit summary can be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this sector.  To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by OFQUAL, to indicate the depth of study and level of difficulty involved in successful completion by the learner.

    The course itself has been designed by Kendal Publishing to meet specific learners’ and /or employers requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications. Abc Awards & Cert awards endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.

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    Assessment

    Learners will be required to complete a series of tutor-marked assignments ( normally 1 after each unit) as they progress through this course. Each assignment will contain a variety of tasks/questions. These assignments are assessed by your tutor to monitor progress. You will be provided with constructive feedback to help you in completing each unit to the required standard.

    There is no examination to complete as the course is completed using continual assessment.

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