Course

Semester 5

This course will introduce students to the process and techniques of creative writing. It takes a student-centered approach to creative writing, offering a range of strategies to help student develop as a writer. The emphasis is highly practical, with exercises and activities designed to ignite and sustain the writing impulse. The course starts by showing ways of using memory and experience and building a daily discipline. This is followed by demonstration and practice of the three most popular forms – writing fiction, writing poetry, and life writing (biography and autobiography) through exercises, namely haiku, blind/deaf experience, three minutes writing cycles, exterior/interior boxes, extended fable, Bulwer-Lytton Sentences, six sentence paragraph, four visitors, voices in the dark, obfuscatory sentences, character cycle, journal, letter to grandchild, writing a story for children. The concluding part aims to help student experience editing and publication process. 2 Credits: 14 meeting hours.

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