Writing Skills: Feature Writing: Advanced (1 day)

Course Overview

This course is for experienced features writers who want to raise their game and gain experience from the best magazine and newspaper feature writers available.

As well as general feature writing techniques, the course covers a range of specialist feature areas including first-person columns and opinion and comment pieces.

Audience

This is a one day course for writers - whether journalists, press or publicity writers - who want to reach the highest standards of magazine and newspaper feature writing.

Course Outline

INTRODUCTION

HOW TO PERFECT YOUR FEATURE WRITING

Learning from the best stylists and the most accomplished features writers. A look at your copy to determine where you are getting it right and where you might improve

GET THE ONE INTERVIEW A HIGHLY PRIZED INTERVIEWEE IS GOING TO GIVE

everyone wants to talk to a celebrity or a person in a major news story, and they are only going to give one interview, you have to pull out all the stops if you are going to be selected. How to build up trust to make sure you do not disappoint them - or your editor

HOW TO RESEARCH AND WRITE COMPLEX TECHNICAL OR SPECIALIST FEATURES

Putting in the ground work. Selecting those who can help you acquire the knowledge you need. Finding the person, organisation or research source which can help you

HOW TO WRITE FIRST-PERSON COLUMNS

Many feature writers think they can do them, a lot get the opportunity, few turn out consistently readable copy. How to determine whether you are cut out to be a columnist, how to develop your columnist's persona and how to keep the column fresh and highly readable

HOW TO WRITE OPINION AND COLUMN PIECES

Writing opinion pieces to order - even when you don't agree with the views you are being asked to express

THE FEATURES THAT WIN AWARDS

Tips and tricks for making your features stand out from the crowd

ADVANCED STYLE, STRUCTURE AND A UNIQUE VOICE

Truly successful features writers have a unique style and voice. How to develop your own style and voice. Please bring along examples of your own work if you wish so a copy clinic can be conducted on it.

Writing Skills: Feature Writing: Advanced (1 day) / WSFRA