Want to write a memoir, or investigate your family tree? Get started with our biographical writing course. Working through smaller biographies (obituaries, feature pieces) through to more comprehensive works, this course will help you learn about research, evidence, using themes and plots in non-fiction, and more.
There are 8 lessons in this course:
- Scope and Nature of Biographical Writing
- Researching a Biography
- Developing Context
- Short Biographies
- Comprehensive Biographies
- Planning a Biography
- Editing and Marketing a Biography
- Project – Writing a Biographical Story
Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.