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Creative Writing (virtual - English)

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Laboratorio de Escritura

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21 de octubre de 2013 otras fechas

Duración:

5 Meses (60 horas de estudio)

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210 € IVA exento

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Competencias que podrás desarrollar

A) Understand the difference between literary and non-literary language

B) Understand the basic working of the different fiction and non-fiction genres by examining important aspects such as point of view or dialogue

C) Improve overall writing and communication skills such as simplicity and coherence or the use of literary devices

D) Become aware of one’s personal writing voice

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Introduction
What makes a good writer. Simplicity. Literary language vs. non-literary language. Introduction to literary devices.
Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Creative Non-Fiction
Define subcategories: Novel, Novella, Short story, micro-story; memoir, travel writing, newspaper piece, autobiography, letters, textbooks etc. What is creative non-fiction?
Poetry
Short introduction to poetry. The importance of observational skills. Show, don’t tell. Look at famous poems and focus on their use of line breaks, imagery, diction (word elisions). “you should notice and fondle details” (Nabokov) Dimension, senses, light and place.
Novel and Novella
History of the novel. American and British famous novels over time. Differences in how they are set up – nuts and bolts of each. Structure.
Short stories and micro-stories
What are short stories and micro stories. Structuring the conflict – physical conflict and unwritten problem (the theme). The time in the story – structuring a line of events from photos. Focus on a moment, not on a casually connected chain of events. Compression of elements in a novel (like a poem).
Time and plot, the knot
Time with conflict. Flash-forwards, flashbacks, present tense, memory, “stream of consciousness”
Character, point of view, place
How to build character. Look at characters profiles from a selection of novels. Write profile of people you see in a picture. Narration – 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person.
Tone, Rhythm, Voice
What authors have distinctive voices? What make them distinctive? Writing for adults and writing for children. How do you create a fictional voice? Creating mood with characterization, description, images.
Dialogue
The keys to writing dialogue. – study the great writers.
Other creative writing genres – the sky is the limit
Fiction: Adventure novels, children’s storybooks, comic novels, gothic horror novels, historical novels, mysteries, science fiction, westerns, etc. Non-Fiction: articles, essays, magazine articles, humorous pieces, memoirs, letters, research papers, textbooks.

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