Writing for workshop criticism, practice in theory and techniques appropriate to the genre. (May include fiction, drama, screen-writing, poetry, or creative non-fiction)
This ebook offers an alphabetically-arranged collection of entries describing key concepts for students in creative writing courses.
This free textbook/course is "looks at how characters might be drawn and how setting is established. It works on the different levels of characterisation, from flat to round, and how character and place interact. It also works on the effect of genre and how genre can be used. The main teaching material in this unit is taken from an existing publication, The Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich (1995)." The unit is split into three areas: character, setting, and genre and also includes a glossary.
This course is an examination of the formal structural and textual variety in poetry. Students engage in extensive practice in the making of poems and the analysis of both students' manuscripts and 20th-century poetry. The course attempts to make relevant the traditional elements of poetry and their contemporary alternatives. There are weekly writing assignments, including some exercises in prosody.
This course is an introduction to the short story. Students will write stories and short descriptive sketches. Students will read great short stories and participate in class discussions of students' writing and the assigned stories in their historical and social contexts.