I know of the number of readers who are also writers that our page of Current Literature. It is for you, writer-readers, so I inform you that from today, you can sign up for both editing and writing courses that the Cursive School offer.
Cursive School is not just any school, but they have experience and tradition in this of literature. since it belongs to Penguin Random House Publishing Group.
Editing courses
If yours is the publishing world and you want to know all the ins and outs of publishing houses, you want to be an editorial reader or you simply have a vocation for this trade, at Escuela Cursiva there are 3 courses currently offered:
- "How to publish a book" whose teacher-tutor is Albert Mark: This course aims to take a tour in six sessions on the editor's trade since a manuscript arrives at a Editorial until it is sold in a bookstore. How to select the right project for a specific editorial line, how to work on the manuscript with the author or how to promote the novel so that it reaches the greatest number of audience, are just some of the questions that will be addressed in the course. The backbone of the same will be the figure of the editor as coordinator of the edition of the book, and will attend to teamwork with each of the editorial departments and the relationship with the author throughout this process.
- "Typographic correction" whose teacher-tutor is Laura Ortega. Do you want to be a proofreader in an editorial? Are you a writer and want to learn how to spell-correct your texts? This course offers all the tools that will allow students to get started in professional spelling correction. Obviously, this course has an editorial focus, always governed by the criteria that follow in Penguin Random House Editorial Group.
- «You are what you count. Marketing for writers » with Pink Samper as a teacher-tutor. With this course you will learn to build a speech clear about who you are like writer andfrom how to introduce yourself to others and explain your projects to how to communicate your uniqueness, starting with the editors and ending with the final reader. As if you were a Fiction character, you are going to answer a series of questions that will allow us to define some coordinates with which to introduce yourself to others. Nobody believes that you know how to do everything and everything well, it is time to decide and define yourself.
Writing courses
- "Write a novel. The first steps" by Jose Ovejero: Would you like to write a novel? Not sure how to start? The writer José Ovejero shows you the first steps of writing a novel. Starting from a story that the student has thought up, we will deal with some of the essential problems that are presented to every writer. Apart from the more general theoretical considerations, which will have their space, and some readings that will be proposed, will be carried out drill that allow the student to make decisions that will be fundamental during the deed.
- "The novel as a complex system, today" by Agustin Fernandez Mallo: An important part of the contemporary creation it is based on combining narrative mechanisms in such a way that the reader feels surprised sometimes and in familiar territory other times. We always work in those territories of mixtures, hybrids. Analog networks and digital networks. This happens by not limiting itself to “telling a story”, but by combining elements of all the complexity that surrounds us –culture and popular-, playing with the environment and the society in which the characters are registered, not giving mere documentation - Wikipedia and encyclopedias are for that - but to use the environment and the cultural environment to benefit a living and credible history, however fantastic it may be. This course delves into how the teacher -Agustin Fernandez Mallo- addresses those creative processes.
- «Genre novel I: The romantic-erotic novel» by Elizabeth Benavent: If you've always wanted to write that great love story, full of passion and sensuality, and you have never done it, this course is totally designed for you.
- «Short story workshop» by Laura Moreno: With this course you will be able to develop, through practice and knowledge of some artworks and their respective theoretical narrative bases, your ability to write. Discover it in the case of beginners and perfect it in the case of more advanced students. Find the equilibrium between technical knowledge, creative power and the need for sharing as a learning process. Alternating theory and practice in classes, both from writing and reading stories proposed for each topic. Share interpretations, philias and phobias.
If you want to sign up for one of the previous courses or several, or you just need more information, click this article. You will find everything you need to know.