Course overview

Read any amazing books lately — you know, the ones you’ve written? If not, let’s start. Learn how to write masterpieces of fiction and non-fiction; unleash the next potential best seller by creating literary universes in which your audiences can find and, just as easily, lose themselves in. If you’ve got a great story, it’s always worth telling — because there’s always someone, somewhere across the world who’s looking forward to reading it. Let’s get that out there to them.

Note: this course is conducted on a 1-on-1 basis, owing to the highly personal nature of materials discussed and the need to protect each author’s ideas and intellectual property.

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Your writing career is a serious business. You have ideas and stories that need to be told. Perhaps they’re life lessons, a new disruptive model for your industry, or a tale of astounding imagination. Transforming a great idea into a book puts you on the express lane towards thought leadership and market dominance. You will understand and continue to use the authoring process on a professional level with confidence, applying imagination and intellectual query towards literary scholarship in your creative writing and storytelling abilities.

Being the author of a book is a life-changing experience with the potential to multiply ideas on a geometric scale. This experiential course will help you to achieve this scale. You will be able to write original stories and texts that audiences want to read, and belong to. You will be able to write for both fiction and non-fiction, build meaningful relationships between your characters and readers, and blur the lines between your world and the one we exist in. You will use your ideas, aspirations, and passions to create worlds from words that your audiences want to live in and belong to.

At the end of this course, you will be able to apply imaginative processes with intellectual query towards literary scholarship in your creative writing and storytelling abilities. You will also be equipped with the confidence, tools and knowledge necessary to become a formed professional, and long-term, author. And as a member of Qrowd, Quantico CCIL’s best-in-class post-course support, you will have free and lifetime access to your instructor, new learning resources, and one-on-one meet-ups through Quantico CCIL’s authoring and publishing networks.

This course teaches you not only how to write for personal or business purposes, but also gets you to master the entire process of writing, from idea generation and drafting, to clarifying the narrative process, making a point, and aligning your content with your audience. This authorship course gives you the skills to switch careers, start your own business, or boost your existing career. Your instructor will help you with career advice and any professional work support you require, during the course. Introduction to Authorship can be taken independently, or combined with Introduction to Publishing.

Course convenor

Deepa Vijayan is a trainer and senior communications advisor for government, finance, education, STEM, hospitality, and nonprofit sectors in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Deepa’s major practice areas are copywriting, content marketing, digital culture, and branded & corporate storytelling. Her focus is on the intersections between communication and digital culture, healthcare, religion, and the arts. More on your convenor [+]

Course overview

You’ve got your manuscript out. It’s time to take it to the world. Whether you choose traditional or self-publishing channels, hire a representative or use services like Create Space™, sell your rights or negotiate a royalty with perpetuities, this course has you covered from agents to zadj. Learn how to get your masterpieces published; build a powerful ecosystem around your work to sell your books, your ideas, and yourself across audiences, genres, and cultures.

Note: this course is conducted on a 1-on-1 basis, owing to the highly personal nature of materials discussed and the need to protect each author’s ideas and intellectual property.

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Introduction to Publishing gives aspiring authors and writers a solid understanding of the book and media publishing industry as it stands today, and where it will be tomorrow. This course covers the entire process, from preparing your manuscript for final edits, to meeting with publishing agents and signing book deals. The course facilitates a constructive, realistic discussion of the publishing industry for both, first-time and experienced authors — with the goal of navigating the publishing industry with confidence and clarity. Your instructor will remain on-hand to provide sound career advice and professional guidance long after the course is over. Introduction to Publishing can be taken independently, or combined with Introduction to Authorship.

Course convenor

Deepa Vijayan is a trainer and senior communications advisor for government, finance, education, STEM, hospitality, and nonprofit sectors in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Deepa’s major practice areas are copywriting, content marketing, digital culture, and branded & corporate storytelling. Her focus is on the intersections between communication and digital culture, healthcare, religion, and the arts. More on your convenor [+]

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