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This course is designed by a novelist to help
students avoid basic errors in constructing a long manuscript. The
aim is to give pointers progressing from original idea to finished
manuscript. The course will also aim to make new writers aware of
the business side of publishing today. Suitable for both beginners
and the more experienced. The first week will take the form of a
self-paced tutor-led induction course.
The tutor: Jean Chapman
Jean Chapman began her writing career as a
freelance journalist. Since then, her short stories have been published
in a wide range of markets and won several national competitions.
Reassured by her success in short fiction she moved on to novels,
and her twelfth novel A New Beginning was published in 2001.
Her thirteenth novel, And A Golden Pear, comes out Sept.
27th 2002. She has taught and lectured on creative writing at five
Community Colleges, the University of Leicester and De Montfort
University, and acted as a reviewer and appraiser for East Midlands
Arts and Readers' Digest. Her children's novel The Feast of the
Hungry Ghosts was short-listed for the Blackie/Scottish Book
Trust Award in 1990 and two of her novels (The Unreasoning Earth
in 1982 and The Red Pavilion in 1996) have been short-listed
for the Parker Pen Romantic Novel of the Year Award, a £10,000
prize administered by the Romantic Novelists' Association (RNA).
She enjoys travelling all over the world wherever her books are
set, and coming home to life in a small Leicestershire village in
England. She is currently Chairman of the RNA, a position which
brings her into close contact with all the major publishers and
major figures in the writing world. Jean says writing is her passion,
and tutoring her pleasure.
This course is 10 weeks including a FREE Induction
Week.
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| Series |
Starting Date |
Early Bird
Booking Deadline
(Price £140 ) |
Booking Deadline
(Price £160) |
Ending Date |
| 2 |
16th September 2002 |
2nd August 2002 |
9th September 2002 |
24th November 2002 |
The aims of this course are:
- To show how idea can become a construction
for a novel
- To focus students on the Main Theme of their
intended novel
- To help students understand the market place
and the use of genre publication
Contents
The structure of a novel will be considered
first, aids to help the construction, then exactly what goes into
making a good beginning. Then we will consider characters, background,
settings in both time and place. How plot and sub-plot thicken the
weave, and what gives a novel page-turning qualities.
Typical Reading
It is always helpful if a student has read
recently published novels in the genre in which they want to succeed.
Helpful to at least know the plot of "Romeo & Juliet."
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this
course you should have:
- Give one line answers to the questions:
Why are you writing this novel?
What is it about?
Who do you see as your readers?
Typical assessments
- Write a 500-word beginning to a novel.
- Produce a "Thread" chart for projected novel.
- Write a scene showing how the main theme is the driving force
of the narrative motor
Pre-requisites for this course
You will need to:
- be able to use a word processor
- be familiar with use of a browser
- Have some experience of writing fiction
at a basic level
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