SS
Aug 10, 2016
I loved this course! Extremely useful and hands on. The course instructor was really impressive, both informative and empathetic, both arty and to the point. Totally admired her style of instruction.
NM
Sep 25, 2020
The course was very well-structured and challenging. The instructor is very experienced and good, thus used relevant materials for this course, be it the guests, or the assignments, or the examples.
By Savita B
•Sep 7, 2017
Very good course, including excellent input from the teachers, and, in my opinion, some challenging assignments, which enable the student to learn more.
By Anthoni R
•Jun 1, 2020
Great way to introduce writing character and how to embody those characters. Amy Bloom is a brilliant, welcomed voice in the ear of an aspiring writer.
By Victoria S
•Dec 28, 2018
All of the Creative Writing courses have been helpful to me in grounding me in my writing practice. I cannot thank you all enough for this experience.
By Raul N C G
•Dec 21, 2018
Good course and interesting exercises. The instructor tackled the course in a bit different way that works fairly well for the course and its content.
By Mohamad N
•Sep 12, 2023
This course was really helpful for me, I learnt a lot of things about developing a character and it was a great journey. Thanks for this opportunity.
By Trish S
•Nov 8, 2016
This course offers great ideas and tools on how to make a character more 3D. Helpful links are offered and the discussion boards are very well done.
By Naomi G
•Aug 12, 2020
The course is short and to the point and the assignments are also creative and challenging! Thank you Wesleyan University for such wonderful course!
By Aisha K
•Jun 30, 2016
Excellent scaffolding of exercises to provide a broad intro aspects of character development. Enjoyable, meaningful, and great teaching methodology!
By Arya N
•Sep 29, 2024
It is very amazing and I have learned so many new things. I also love the AI coach for teaching me many things about Coursera and the outer world.
By Balasubramaniyan V
•Jul 9, 2024
the topics discussed here makes the learner the basic things in how to make a dialogue, the sentence, the POV, and many more minute things clearly
By Polina K
•Feb 23, 2019
I learned a lot thanks to this course. The teachers are wonderful, and so is the information provided. I can feel my writing improve. Thank you:)
By Perri Z
•May 31, 2017
I enjoyed listening to and reading each assignment's parts , all relevant and added more to my own learning perspective in developing characters.
By Hiobi H
•Sep 5, 2017
Merci une fois de plus pour ce cours très très instructif. Les enseignants m'aident à poursuivre mon projet de littéraire actuellement en cours.
By Kat E
•Sep 26, 2021
This class offered an experience to expand my writing tools. I thought it was well worth the time spent and I'm excited to create my characters
By Donna R
•Oct 12, 2020
The craft of character was very enlighten and gives you the knowledge of creating characters and giving them an identity to be place in a story
By Tom S
•Jul 5, 2018
Don't shy away from the challenging course material contained within, especially in Module 2. If writing was easy...y'know where this is going.
By Maria-Elisa D
•Jan 29, 2021
I learned a lot from this course. It was interesting, it was fun, I felt motivated to writing scenes and creating characters. Love it, thanks!
By Emily H
•Mar 4, 2020
Really great video examples and writing prompts. Peer reviews have been insightful and I've enjoyed reading other's work. Great series so far!
By abrar a
•Mar 20, 2018
I love the professor. Her tips and lessons and also the assignments.. They were quite challenging and took time to understand.. but I loved it
By Victoria
•Dec 5, 2017
Great exercises that are very effective. A well-taught course with clever instruction designed to get you to the heart of writing character.
By Jael P
•Jan 30, 2021
I really enjoyed this course. I learned a lot about how to put my characters into writing instead of letting them float around in my head.
By Mariana
•Mar 14, 2016
Wonderful! Very informative. Filled with examples, literature and very interesting interviews! Thank you so much! You're a great teacher!
By Gina A
•Feb 23, 2021
I truly enjoyed this course, Amy Bloom's way a teaching opened my eyes to a lot of new information, and the excercises were very useful.
By harrisonyvette@yahoo.com
•Oct 24, 2017
Really loved this course but the assignment instructions could be simplified. I cut and pasted them then added bullets to sort them out.
By frank.weiler@firstreliance.ca
•May 29, 2021
Thank you for the excellent content in this course. I found it very helpful and thought provoking. Looking forward to the next course.