Best course. Best professor.

Great course. Very helpful.

Help me write long story.

Absolutely Enriching!

Excellent, thank you.

Gooood. So very good

Very good course .

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Excelent Course!

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Best course!

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EXELENTE

6

The course helped me complete the first draft of a fantasy novel. I was lucky enough to connect with a wonderful group of participants who were supportive and encouraging through the entire process. Some of us will remain connected as we go through the first round of editing.

I would love Coursera to fix a couple of glitches in the system. One is the formatting when uploading assignments. Understand that HTML can be glitchy, but it was really annoying in the beginning until I learned that uploading from Google Docs was better than uploading from Word. The second thing is being able to continue reviewing the same student submissions. By doing so, we can provide better comments when we can follow the same story. It's hard to critique someone's chapter randomly if we don't know what occurred in earlier chapters.

The instruction was great; I gain some useful tools that I will be able to use in my writing in the future. However, what was frustrating for me was the fact that I could not receive one-on-one via chat, email or any other form when I felt only the instructor could provide the answer to my question. My other frustration stemmed from the peer reviews. In this class in particular, I was more comfortable in giving reviews to my fellow writers whose progress in their work I had been following since its inception. I was completely uncomfortable in critiquing my peers based on the chapter by chapter review process without knowledge of prior chapter work and was not appreciative of being review in that manner; something that may need consideration and perhaps revision,

The course itself is very useful, and a good help for getting a grasp of story structure. I also appreciated the aspects of pitching and logline's which I think are important if you plan to be a published writer. However, there's not much help with how to actually implemenet edits, not to mention that I don't think getting feedback on the first draft of a novel is particularly helpful. I eventually stopped posting my actual chapters because some other members of the course pointed out concerns about AI skimming. I think the info provided is good in and of itself, and I think this is a good way to keep on track and have a consistent schedule, but the course is not perfect and could use some tweaks. Still, I suppose you can't complain about something that's free.

Excellent course, which did a great job in helping me establish a consistent writing routine. My only quibble is with the times in the course that called for table reads. That really broke my rhythm. Also, the assignment at the end of submitting the entire manuscript and reviewing 1-2 entire manuscripts seemed like a lot at that point in the course. I would have also liked to have seen better resources in the course for establishing critique groups or directing students to them. Other than that, this was a very useful course that I would recommend to anyone starting out in the writing world.

1. Helps you start and pick up the pace for writing.

2. A series of videos to help you stay on track.

3. Peer review assignments are hard to follow at some point. You have to read a chapter for five each time. The problem lies in having no criteria to give helpful feedback. You cannot stay on track for the same work you started reviewing except outside the platform.

4. The course might benefit from discussing the pros and cons of some known works.

Overall, it is a good experience for a novice and did help me sort my writing work properly.

This was a helpful course and it worked for me as a first time writer. The advice and guidance of the teacher is valuable and it helped me through my first ever novel. The only factor that makes it a four star instead of a five star is the part where we have to give feedback to other learners. Some of the feedback I recieved was great, but most of it was vague. Furthermore, sometimes only work submitted years ago was available for review. Overall, I'm glad I took this course and I'm very happy with the results!

I like that this course gave you directions without hand-holding and definite directions. The instructor pretty much pointed you in the right direction with great tips and let you explore on your own, allowing you to develop your own style. He gave suggestions on where to take each chapter that were unexpected and challenging, but definitely improved your writing if you followed his direction. Also, having a cohort to exchange ideas and give feedback was most valuable. I'm really glad I took this course!

The content from the instructor was excellent. Peer support was less than desired. However, there was good support from some dedicated students who actually knew what they were talking about. The constant signing of names for rights was ridiculous.