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Writing Books and Stories
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Reach Your Potential in the Field of Writing

What does it take to get your work into print? Creativity? Depth? Originality?

The DCA Writing Books and Stories Course can give you the skills to shape your writing into powerful short stories that are ready for publication. You may even be able to turn your hobby into a money-making career.

Once you embark on this distance learning course, each piece you submit will be carefully reviewed by your specialist tutor and returned with comments, corrections and suggestions. Your tutor will examine the elements of theme, character, point of view, plot and scene and using your tutor’s suggestions as a guideline you are sure to see your work greatly improve. You will also learn how to edit and rewrite your material and will come to realise how important this process is to the successful writer. As a further boost to your fledgling career, DCA provides tips from editors and submission guidelines for a host of short story markets.

Whatever your writing ambitions, the DCA distance learning programme could well unlock the key to a profitable, new career and turn dreams into reality.

The Course includes:
• The short story as an art form
• Choosing a point of view
• Developing memorable characters
• Connecting plots and sub-plots
• Hooking an editor in the first three paragraphs
• Building a believable and revealing end
• Sharpening your skills

As a DCA student, your course fee covers everything you will need to complete the Writing Books and Stories home study course successfully and earn your diploma:

• All textbooks, study guides, and learning aids designed for distance learning
• A full range of student services, including on-line assessments
• A personalised diploma upon course completion
• Unlimited educational support by e-mail or freephone
• Free postage and packaging.

Get started today, and you can earn your Writing Books and Stories diploma in as little as six months, or take up to two years, if you prefer – the choice is yours.
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