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| Writing Classes
Education is an important part of a writer's career. That is why FanStory.com offers targeted classes that writers of all skill levels will benefit from.
FanStory.com classes are small (seven or less students in each class) and designed to give you one on one instruction while you complete assignments on your own time and work at your own pace in the comfort of your own home.
All of the courses operate in our unique online classrooms. Your classroom offers you a location to meet with your instructor, read and enter assignments, and ask questions. Instructors are available for private review and detailed help. In addition, classes give you the ability to share your work with your classroom peers as well as the entire FanStory.com writing community.
It's a wonderful experience and an excellent way to further develop your skills, or to try your hand at something completely new!
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 | senryu
Want to be funny but not obvious? Learn the polite but satiric art of senryu. Write humor, political commentary, and social criticism in an understated way that will make people listen! Previous participation in the Shorter Poetic Forms class recommended, but not required.
Starts: March 4th
Seats Left: 8 seats. | Shorter Poetic Forms
In this course, we'll focus on brevity--how to say a lot in a little. We'll take away the mystery from haiku, senryu, tanka, and cinquains and learn how to write and enjoy them painlessly.
Starts: March 4th
Seats Left: 9 seats. |
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 | The Japanese Aesthetic
This course is designed for those who wish to write or review the Japanese poetic forms. We shall study Japanese food, art, and poetry to understand how vastly different the Japanese aesthetic is from the Western one. This course will increase one's appreciation of Japanese culture so that one can knowingly write and critique haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, haibun, and other longer forms.
Starts: April 1st
Seats Left: 9 seats. | Genesis and Poetry
The Book of Genesis has inspired Western culture throughout the ages. In this course, we'll look at the cycles in the book, their literary import, and how we can write creative works based on the wonderful stories found therein! No faith stance required and all faith stances are welcome--all that is required is an appreciation of Genesis as fine literature!
Starts: April 1st
Seats Left: 6 seats. |
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 | Italian Poetic Forms
This class will focus on teaching meter and rhyme through looking at the ottava rima, terza rima, villanelle, and terzanelle forms. We'll look at the Italian origin of most of these forms, the place of these forms in the history of English poetry, and write these forms. Students can take this course without a prerequisite, though having taken Rhyme and Meter in Poetry or one of the courses in the French Poetic Forms would be helpful.
Starts: May 6th
Seats Left: 5 seats. |
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