Module description
Students must have taken Module 5AAEB015 Prose Fiction to take this module
This module will deepen your understanding of the writer’s craft and enhance the development of techniques you acquired in Prose Fiction.
The first ninety minutes of every workshop is devoted to the critique of student work-in-progress (either a short story or a novel excerpt). Discussions are guided by the lecturer, who will offer feedback tailored to the craft-related issues evident in each submission. This may include topic such as characterisation, plot, structure, dialogue, voice, point of view, narrative time, conflict, prose style, and so on.
The last half-hour of each workshop promotes the close reading and evaluation of established authors’ work, exemplifying matters of technique and the various stylistic approaches to the form.
Advanced Fiction Workshop is intended for third year students who are keen to pursue their ambitions as creative writers after graduation. It offers a supportive environment for critique, while refining your editorial skills and improving your ability to read as a writer.
Assessment details
4000 word short story or novel excerpt
Educational aims & objectives
This module aims to:
- Enable students to refine their skills as fiction writers.
- Deepen students’ awareness of the novel and short story forms and control over elements of the writer’s craft.
- Develop students’ skills of self-evaluation and constructive analysis of the work of others.
- Enable students to consolidate learning through lecturer and peer feedback.
- Enable students to acquire skills in editing and redrafting their own writing.
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module students will be able to:
- Demonstrate control of elements of the writer’s craft in their own work.
- Discuss and evaluate the work of fellow students and established writers in relation to elements of craft.
- Interpret, self-evaluate, and communicate constructive feedback.
- Maintain a regular writing habit and produce more effective creative work independently.
- Write more confidently, precisely, and imaginatively.
- Solve craft-related problems in their work.
- Implement the practice of redrafting and editing.
Teaching pattern
2-Hour Weekly Seminar