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Residential Writing Course: Fiction - Write here, write now
This course will give you the chance to develop your storytelling skills in a supportive, inspiring environment: whether you’re planning a novel, wrestling with a work-in-progress, or have always wanted to write short stories but don’t know where to start, this week will transform your will to write into words on the page.
City Lit: Starting Your Novel
This course will cover the basic aspects of novel writing, and is ideal for intermediate students who have an idea for a novel or a novel in progress. The syllabus will cover a wide variety of techniques including character, point of view, dialogue, structure and style. There is also an element of workshop in this course.
Starting Your Novel
This course will cover the basic aspects of novel writing, and is ideal for intermediate students who have an idea for a novel or a novel in progress. The syllabus will cover a wide variety of techniques including character, point of view, dialogue, structure and style. There is also an element of workshop in this course.
Running for 11 weeks (3 May to 12 July 2023) at 19:40 - 21:40 on Wednesday evenings, we will be covering issues of craft and content, including character, point of view, structure and style; examination of technical elements including dialogue, scene-building, and effective writing on a sentence-by-sentence level; keeping the reader's interest; workshopping of students' work.