FICTION WRITING (4 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: explain various forms and structures of fiction; apply the key concepts of writing fiction, including narrative techniques and style; Write short stories or novels with their own unique style and preferred themes.

Topics:

1. Introduction: The Writing Process;
2. Seeing is Believing: Showing and Telling;
3. Building Character: Characterization, Part I;
4. The Flesh Made Word: Characterization, Part II;
5. Long Ago and Far Away: Fictional Setting;
6. The Tower and The Net: Plot and Structure;
7. Point of View;
8. Is and Not: Comparison;
9. Research;
10. Revision and Theme;
11. Review: Workshop 1;
12. Review: Workshop 2;
13. Writers’ Market.