Not by far as good as the first module (Craft of Plot). This course seemed less planned and structured. The videos were mostly interviews that sort of touched upon the subjects but hardly ever got into detail. The assignments were often vague and harder to understand.

I found the assignment instructions to be quite confusing. Some of the questions asked for the peer-to-peer reviews were very unclear. I didn't feel the course, overall, offered the same level of content and knowledge that the Craft of Plot offered.

The instructor is phenomenal and so is her writing. However, the assignments (imo) are too difficult for beginning writers such as myself. Trying to write to such specific guidelines really slowed down my progress because I had such a hard time.

I think Judy Bloom is a brilliant writer. She is also an engaging instructor but I found it difficult at time to discern what the salient points or "take-aways" were from the lectures. I also found the assignment to be less than clear.

I've got the chance to practice writing and I've learned some interesting insights, but I think the instructor didn't put too much effort into this course. All there is to it are 'shop talks' and too little structure.

I felt like the teaching was fairly abstract, and I had a difficult time figuring out how I was supposed to apply certain lessons. Overall, I did pick up several helpful hints, so the course was worth it.

I found most of the assignments very confusing and difficult to complete. It is a real challenge and forces you to really think, think hard and hope for the best. If you take the course, good luck.

The course was very interesting and shed light on the specifics on character development. However, the questions in most peer-graded assignments were some times not suitable for the assignment.

The course material is great, but the grading usually doesn't result in me getting good feedback. Most students just write "good" without expanding on how I can improve.

The information provided is great, but there's so many "shop talks" aka interviews with other Coursera instructors that it misses out on so many possible true lessons.

Achei as atividades um pouco cansativas, e pouco intuitivas. Os vídeos mais longos e com momentos mais entediantes em relação ao primeiro modulo.

I enjoyed everything that I learned from the course. My only wish is that the course included teacher reviews in addition to the peer reviews.

I honestly didn't learn a lot more than in the first course of the specialization. Some of the assignments were a little off-putting to me.

Most of the assignments had nothing to do with the lectures. The assignments instructions weren't clear sometimes and very confusing.

The assignments are hard to understand and not well explained. They are also completely irrelevant to the lessons of the week.

Has been a great course but I would have loved more readings and a little bit more formal rules to sketch our own characters.

Good information in the videos. The assignments were difficult and didn't seem related to the material from the lectures.

I liked a lot of what was said. I wish I had some more concrete advice for building character - if such a thing exists.

Great material but students grading other student's work becomes a problem if they can prohibit another from passing.

Good course, but assignment instructions were difficult to understand at times and no examples were given.

This course is beneficial to all those who struggle with character plot. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

In the second course, the talks were not as useful for the assignments, particularly in week 2.

It is good but I think the lectures are a little disjointed from each other and the exercises.

Adequate intro course. Could gather roughly the same info with a bit of browsing the internet.

This course could use some work, but nevertheless I learned a bit more than I already knew.