Even if you’ve never considered writing a biography or biopic before, the skills you’ll learn in this class can be used to develop characters and weave stories together in multiple genres, including fiction and memoir.

Learning about the highs and lows of a person’s life, then accurately portraying them through story—those are skills you’ll use in many ways throughout your writing career. Sometimes just the smallest detail about a person can lift them off the page and make them live and breathe in the mind of the reader or viewer.