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Your writing career is a serious business. You have ideas and stories that need to be told. Perhaps they’re life lessons, a new disruptive model for your industry, or a tale of astounding imagination. Transforming a great idea into a book puts you on the express lane towards thought leadership and market dominance. You will understand and continue to use the authoring process on a professional level with confidence, applying imagination and intellectual query towards literary scholarship in your creative writing and storytelling abilities.

Being the author of a book is a life-changing experience with the potential to multiply ideas on a geometric scale. This experiential course will help you to achieve this scale. You will be able to write original stories and texts that audiences want to read, and belong to. You will be able to write for both fiction and non-fiction, build meaningful relationships between your characters and readers, and blur the lines between your world and the one we exist in. You will use your ideas, aspirations, and passions to create worlds from words that your audiences want to live in and belong to.

At the end of this course, you will be able to apply imaginative processes with intellectual query to your creative writing and storytelling abilities. You will be equipped with the confidence, tools, and knowledge needed to become a career author. And as a member of Qrowd, Quantico CCIL’s best-in-class post-course support, you will have free and lifetime access to your instructor, new learning resources, and one-on-one meet-ups through Quantico CCIL’s authoring and publishing networks.

This course teaches you to master the process of creative writing, from idea generation and drafting, to clarifying the narrative process, making a point, and aligning your content with your audience. This authorship course gives you the skills to switch careers, start your own business, or boost your existing career. Your instructor will always be on hand with career advice and professional work support. Introduction to Authorship can be taken independently, or combined with Introduction to Publishing.

Deepa Vijayan is a trainer and senior communications specialist for government, finance, education, STEM, hospitality, and nonprofit sectors in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Deepa’s practice areas are content marketing, digital culture, branded & corporate storytelling, and arts communication. Her focus is on the intersections between communication and digital culture, healthcare, religion, and the arts.

Deepa is currently completing another degree in religious studies from the University of London. She is part of the interfaith fellowship programme at the Centre for Interfaith Understanding (CIFU) in Singapore. She has led the team at Quantico CCIL since its founding in 2005 and continues to take a hands-on approach to training our participants in the areas of digital marketing, storytelling, and arts communication. More on your convenor →

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Introduction to Publishing gives aspiring authors a solid understanding of the publishing industry as it stands today, and where it will be tomorrow. This course covers the entire process, from preparing your manuscript for final edits to meeting with publishing agents and signing book deals. We will also examine different types of publishing contracts and the processes of manuscript covers, proofing, submission timelines, and production.

The course facilitates constructive, realistic discussions of the publishing industry, with a view to helping first-time authors navigate the business of publishing with confidence and clarity. Your instructor will remain on-hand to provide sound career advice and professional guidance long after the course is over. Introduction to Publishing can be taken independently, or combined with Introduction to Authorship.

Deepa Vijayan is a trainer and senior communications specialist for government, finance, education, STEM, hospitality, and nonprofit sectors in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Deepa’s practice areas are content marketing, digital culture, branded & corporate storytelling, and arts communication. Her focus is on the intersections between communication and digital culture, healthcare, religion, and the arts.

Deepa is currently completing another degree in religious studies from the University of London. She is part of the interfaith fellowship programme at the Centre for Interfaith Understanding (CIFU) in Singapore. She has led the team at Quantico CCIL since its founding in 2005 and continues to take a hands-on approach to training our participants in the areas of digital marketing, storytelling, and arts communication. More on your convenor →