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This course will focus on the practical techniques of writing short stories, extended fiction and some poetry. It will encourage students to consider assembling a block of skills which they will require to repeatedly construct functioning narratives. The course will examine the practical skills of creating subtle fictional depictions – or high drama – and consider how we establish what is at stake for the readers of our fiction. By the completion of the course, students will have assembled a skill set to tackle creative work in a variety of modes, and present and structure it to a professional level.
| Study Type | Undergraduate | Level | 4 |
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| Term | First Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course will focus on the practical techniques of writing short stories, extended fiction and some poetry. It will encourage students to consider assembling a block of skills which they will require to repeatedly construct functioning narratives. The course will examine the practical skills of creating subtle fictional depictions – or high drama – and consider how we establish what is at stake for the readers of our fiction. By the completion of the course, students will have assembled a skill set to tackle creative work in a variety of modes, and present and structure it to a professional level.
Week 1. Seeing Scenes: Imagining Or Not?
Week 2. Genres. Characters & Dialogue: Unity or Conflict?
Week 3. Aspects of Character. Journey and Change.
Week 4. Workshop Week.
Week 5. Scenes or Narratives? Plots.
Week 6. Voice and Identity.
Week 7. Voice. Poems and ‘Expressing.’
Week 8. Imagery, Metaphors and Similes.
Week 9. Learning from Non-fiction. Revising.
Week 10. Writing Week.
Week 11. Using Your Skills.
Week 12. Submission
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
Alternative Assessment
Creative extract of approximately 1500 words for an individual feedback session in Week 7 (20%)
Folio of 4000 words, together with an introductory essay of 1,500 words to be submitted in week 12. (80%)
Alternative Resit Assessment
1 x 4,000 word folio (100%)
There are no assessments for this course.
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Procedural | Evaluate | To enhance students’ understanding and appreciation of literature through practical engagement with the demands of formal control, coherence and aesthetic impact. |
| Reflection | Apply | To provide students with techniques for developing or extending their own creativity. |
| Procedural | Understand | To provide an understanding of the processes of creativity and of the development of an original idea into a completed literary artefact. |
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