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Lesson 1: Sense-Bound Writing—What Writing
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Lesson 2: Writing from Person—Who Writing

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For-credit tuition: $1,400
Third-Person Narrative Non-credit tuition: $1,200
Add 6 CEUs: $25.00
First-Person Narrative
Credits: 3
Direct Address
Duration: 12 Weeks
Second-Person Narrative
Catalog #: BMW-116
Writing from the Outside
Writing from the Inside
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Second-Person Narrative
Direct Address Pat Pat Pattison
Pattison Author, clinician and
Lesson 3: Writing from Time—When Writing Berklee Professor of
Lyric Writing and
Locating Your Characters in Time
Poetry.
Use of Tense and Point of View
Writing in Past Tense Caroline Harvey
Assistant professor
Writing Past Tense to Present Tense
in the Liberal Arts
Writing Present Tense to Future Tense department at
Writing in All Three Tenses Berklee College of
Music
Lesson 4: Writing from Place—Where Writing

Locating Characters in Space

Combining Where and When
Sentence Types
Combining Point of View, Senses, and Place
Combining Third-Person Narrative, Moving from Past to Present
Tense, Senses, and Place
Combining Second-Person Narrative, Moving from Present to
Future Tense, Senses, and Place
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Lesson 5: Metaphor—Adjectives and Nouns

Making Metaphors
Expressed Identity
Qualifying Metaphor
Verbal Metaphor
Adjective/Noun Collisions
Combining Senses with Adjective/Noun Collisions
Working from Adjectives to Nouns
Working from Nouns to Adjectives

Lesson 6: Metaphor—Nouns and Verbs

Working with Nouns and Verbs

Noun/Verb Collisions
Combining Senses with Noun/Verb Collisions
Moving from Nouns to Verbs
Moving from Verbs to Nouns

Lesson 7: Metaphor—Expressed Identity

Expressed Identity
Noun/Noun Collisions
Noun/Noun Collisions and the Senses
Expressed Identity and the Senses
Creating Provocative Collisions

Lesson 8: Metaphor—Linking Qualities

Finding Metaphors in Deeper Detail

Words in Families and Keys
Linking Qualities and the Senses
Linking Qualities and Expressed Identities
Using one Metaphor Term to Describe the Other Metaphor
Term

Lesson 9: Finding Linking Qualities

Determining Essential Qualities

Locating Linking Qualities
Linking Qualities
Finding Target Ideas

Lesson 10: Working Both Directions

Reversing Metaphor Direction

Working Both Directions with Target Ideas
Exploring through the Lens of the Target Idea
Working Both Directions

Lesson 11: Reversing Direction through Linking Qualities

Reversing Direction through Linking Qualities

Exploring Metaphors through Prompts
Finding Prompts

Lesson 12: The Grand Finale

Final Project: Sharing Your Voice

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