Creative Writing: Fiction

Are you looking for an interesting and fun way to improve your writing abilities, and quality of expression? Do you often find yourself daydreaming about fictitious situations and want to write them down? In this course you will be able to do both. Throughout the term, students will “try on” a variety of writing techniques and styles through a series of short assignments on topics such as setting and tone, character development, dialogue writing, unreliable narrator and emotional drama. Through regular class critiques, students will learn how to give constructive criticism to classmates, and how to effectively revise their own work. In addition to this, we will also discuss short stories and excerpts from novels that demonstrate the techniques mentioned above. Some of the authors we will read are Virginia Woolf, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, Salmon Rushdie, and Thomas Pynchon.