Find your voice and tell your story with Kate Forsyth
This is ideal for: Writers who wish to unlock the door to their subconscious and find joy, inspiration, vitality and empowerment in telling their story.
You will:
Find the courage to tell your story in your own true voice
Discover new inspiration and direction in your writing
Learn how to write swiftly and fluidly in the flow
Be energised to explore new ways of thinking about writing and storytelling
Face your fears and unlock your full potential.
This online course is created and presented by award-winning author Kate Forsyth. Over 6 hours of video lessons, Kate will inspire you to find your voice and tell your story!
“Kate has a wonderful teaching method, which I found calming, reassuring and whilst being highly motivational. This course exceeded my expectations. I love doing courses with AWC. I feel inspired and motivated to be creative.”
– Carole Handel, Dare to Dream graduate
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Duration 1
This is an online self-paced course
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Your 12 months' access begins straight away
Course Creator: Kate Forsyth $360 | |||||
An overview
‘Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In this unique and inspiring course, bestselling author and creative writing mentor Dr Kate Forsyth helps you unlock the door to your unconscious and find joy, inspiration, vitality and empowerment in telling your story. This course is for anyone who has a story they wish to tell, even if they have never written a word before, or written hundreds of thousands. It aims to inspire, empower and energise you, and help you understand the fears that are holding you back from writing to your full potential.
Kate Forsyth talks about Dare to Dream
‘Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it;
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.’
–Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In this unique and inspiring course, bestselling author and creative writing mentor Dr Kate Forsyth helps you unlock the door to your unconscious and find joy, inspiration, vitality and empowerment in telling your story. This course is for anyone who has a story they wish to tell, even if they have never written a word before, or written hundreds of thousands. It aims to inspire, empower and energise you, and help you understand the fears that are holding you back from writing to your full potential.
Kate Forsyth talks about Dare to Dream
Each module focuses on a different theme: Finding Inspiration, Voice, Storytelling Essentials, and Joyous Writing. Through Kate’s inspirational teaching, you’ll discover what you need to know about the art and science of storytelling.
In this self-paced video course, Kate helps you tap into your creativity with techniques she’s honed over many years. You’ll learn about voice, craft, managing time and expectations, and ways to plug into and sustain inspiration.
She’ll also guide you through a series of challenges and exercises designed to help you tap into your creative genius and unlock the stories inside you. These exercises will stimulate your intuition and imagination. The best part is that these exercises can be completed in your own time, whenever you feel ready.
As it’s a self-paced course, you won’t be sharing your private writing and will be completely liberated to nurture your personal dreams and creative desires. By the end of the course you’ll discover new ways of thinking about writing, storytelling, and creativity, and find fresh purpose and direction as you travel towards finding your voice and telling your story.
This course is different
This is a writing course quite unlike any other. All you need is a desire to write.
Maybe you haven’t written any stories since you were a child, or maybe you make your living by telling stories in one form or another. You might dream of writing just for yourself, or you might long for your words to be read by others. You can write stories about things that really happened, or things that may never happen.
All that matters is that you are willing to listen, learn, play, explore, discover and recover your joy in creativity.
This course is designed to empower you to write your own stories in your own voice, and to help you overcome the doubts, fears, and inhibitions that all creative spirits share.
You will learn to:
- sustain inspiration over a piece of long-form creative writing
- unleash your natural creativity
- understand the difference between the Authorial Voice and the Narrative Voice
- create dialogue, interior monologue and a deep point of view that rings true
- master ‘psychic distance’ and the omniscient narrator
- develop storytelling techniques proven in scientific enquiry
- engage and satisfy your readers
- build empathetic and memorable characters
- unlock the door to your unconscious and draw on dreams and daydreams
- release shackles imposed on your creativity by yourself and others
- understand the healing and transformative power of storytelling
- embrace that you are not alone in your fears
- go forward with a new sense of joy and purpose.
Learn with Kate Forsyth
In this course, you’ll access four comprehensive video modules where Kate will take you on your personal creative journey. It’s like having a one-on-one mentoring relationship where you can replay key points whenever you want.
This is an invaluable way to tap into the magic and inspiration from internationally bestselling author Kate Forsyth. You will have an incredible opportunity to learn from one of Australia's best novelists.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q: Do I need to have any writing experience?
A: No, this course is designed to inspire and help writers at any stage of their writing journey. It is suitable for writers of fiction, memoir, or creative non-fiction, and for people wishing to write for children, young adults or adults.
Q: Do I need to have an idea for a story or book?
A: Not at all. This course will help you find new ideas and inspiration if you have no idea what to write, if you’ve run dry and need to refill your creative well, or if you have so many ideas you can’t settle down to only one. It is also a great refresher for experienced writers who are struggling to move forward with an existing project.
Q: Do I need to have done any other writing courses?
A: No, no prior knowledge is necessary.
Q: I have done many other writing courses, will I learn anything new?
A: There is always something new to learn! And this course is designed to illuminate aspects of the art of writing that are sometimes hard to put into practice.
Q: I have been writing for years but feel that I have lost my way – will this course help?
A: All writers struggle with creative exhaustion, loss of motivation, anxiety and self-sabotaging behaviours – it is the cost of creativity. This course has been specifically designed to shine a light into the shadows, and help you find your way forward once more.
Q: Will I know how to write a novel by the end of it?
Dare to Dream is designed to support and amplify our novel writing courses. It aims to help you find and sustain inspiration, access the subconscious where all stories are born, understand the mechanics of storytelling and how stories connect us with other people, and give you a sense of purpose and confidence in your own voice. It does not aim to teach novel writing essentials such as character development, world building, suspense, pace, grammar or foreshadowing – but luckily we have courses in those too!
Q: Will the course help me if I’m writing a memoir?
Yes, this course will help you, regardless of whether you are writing fiction, memoir or creative non-fiction. It is designed to help you find your own voice and explore your own past, something that is crucial in memoir writing as well as in other forms of creative writing.
Q: What’s the difference between this course and Creative Writing Stage 1?
This course, Dare to Dream, is like a tonic for your inner writer. If you yearn to write but self-doubt is holding you back, it’s a great way to dip your toe in the water. It aims to build your confidence and open your mind to the pure joy of writing so you can fill your life with more of it! For this reason, it’s also an ideal course if you have the foundation skills from Creative Writing Stage 1 but want to enhance your writing practice, develop more ideas, and harness your flow.
In Creative Writing Stage 1, you’ll learn the foundation techniques for brilliant fiction – whether you wish to write short stories, novels or just for fun. It teaches you the nuts and bolts of storytelling (such as crafting characters, scenes, structure and plot) and provides you with lifelong skills for every story you write. It’s an essential course for any aspiring author.
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Duration 1
This is an online self-paced course
Duration:
Your 12 months' access begins straight away
Course Creator: Kate Forsyth $360 | |||||
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