Complete Creative Writing Course

Your complete companion for writing creative fiction

By: Chris Sykes

Narrated by: Chris Sykes

Our unique audioteach method features the voice of a real tutor, Chris Sykes. He will guide you through your course with over 7 hours of audio material, giving you tips and advice based on his many years of teaching and writing experience and helping you to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls.

This course takes you from complete beginner or committed amateur to the point where you've completed, edited and redrafted your work and are ready for publication.©2014 Hodder & Stoughton (P)2014 Hodder & Stoughton

Worth it.

Would you listen to Complete Creative Writing Course again? Why?

I like the examples. A reviewer says that they didn't like the different voices, but I think if he or she kept listening they would find the other voice intriguing. It was like listening to a radio show with different actors playing a part. I like how the narrators drew me in with examples on how to write. I have so many questions and this audio has answered many of those questions.

What other book might you compare Complete Creative Writing Course to and why?

Sol Stein's On writing comes to mind, but I actually think this audio is better.

Which scene was your favorite?

All of them.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

The Tree of Learning

Any additional comments?

If you like Sol Stein's audio, you'll this one as well.

Different voices distract

What would have made Complete Creative Writing Course better?

I would have had one person doing the reading. Having 4 people read one line each, one right after the other, is very difficult to follow.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Not sure yet.

How could the performance have been better?

Again, multi people readers needs to be handled well. It works if each person reads a section, but these ones seemed o be trying to represent different thoughts.

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

I didn't get past the first 40 min. It was disappointing.

Painful from beginning to when I stopped.

I tried with this one. I really did. The multiple narrators was distracting, there was nothing of value in the first 3 hours. It got to the point that I was speeding up the book just to finish it faster. I couldn't suffer through till the end.