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A174 Student Website OU A174 Course Description Get Writing Publisher's Association Society of Authors Writer's Guild of Great Britain Fiona's (tutor) website Academi Writers Write Absolute Write Writing Corner Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story? Writing Fiction: A Beginner's Guide A Very Short Story!! Back to OU |
3rd May 2005 Done it! :) 25th March 2005 Good Friday - and I sent off the 2nd TMA this morning!! Way early - but at least there's something there - and I can always resubmit up until the cut-off date. Got 85% for the first one! :) See blog for more. (TMA00 was a dummy, thus the 0%!) 27th January 2005 Well, no materials have yet arrived, but the course website and all conferences opened today. All of the course is online, really - and the block contents are as follows: Block 1 Setting Out Getting started Tips on revision and editing Reading as a writer Keeping a writer’s journal Finding subject matter Believable fiction Keeping going Block 2 - Character, Setting and Genre Character Setting Genre Block 3 - Plot, Narrative and Time Plot (why) Narrative (how) Time (when) Block 4 - Narrative Point of View The function of point of view The main options Point of view and story length Point of view and realism Tense and degrees of realism Unreliable narrators Tense and degrees of sympathy Preparing for eTMA 02 Block 5 - Beginnings What is a beginning? Where to begin? Towards eTMA 02 Towards the ending 26th December 2004 Just registered for the February 2005 presentation of this course (starts 5th February). Have you ever thought of writing short stories or trying your hand at a novel? This course will show you how to fire your creativity and imagination as well as equipping you with the basic narrative strategies. You will study and practise plot and story-structure, character creation, place, and voice. You will be encouraged to build up a regular practice of writing by keeping a writer's notebook, doing warm up exercises, and reading as a writer, adding to your repertoire of techniques by examining other writers' methods. Online discussions with your tutor and group will help you to develop and revise your work. There will be two assessed pieces of work: the first one a set of exercises written to a given theme; the second an entire short story or the beginning part of a longer narrative. The course is written by a novelist and is supported by an audio CD containing interviews with several novelists talking about their own inspirations and methods. |