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In this workshop you will begin to discover
your own 'voice' in fiction writing. You will also learn some techniques
to narrate stories from your chosen points of view. You will become
familiar with creating voices for your characters using dialogue,
internal monologue and stream of consciousness techniques. There
will be an opportunity to try out or extend these techniques in
your own writing. Constructive peer feedback will be provided with
the intention of enhancing your writing techniques.
There are writers from all over the world writing fiction in new
and exciting forms of the English language. Native and non-native
speakers of the English language are invited to join this course
to begin writing fiction or to develop works in progress.
The tutor: Sharon Rundle
Sharon Rundle is a published writer, fiction
consultant and adult education tutor. Her fiction and non-fiction
work have appeared in newspapers, industry publications, magazines,
journals, anthologies, CDs, websites and on radio. She has won literary
awards, including a Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Prize
(1998). Sharon was admitted to the degree of Writing Fellow by the
Fellowship of Australian Writers in 1993. Recent books include Round
Table Magic – A workbook for writers’ groups, (2002);
Round Table Writing - a workbook for writers and writing groups,
Watagan Press (1998) and Changes and Chances - the first twenty
years of the Central Coast Community Women’s Health Centre,
(1997). Sharon holds a Bachelor of Education (Adult Ed, LLN) (UTS,
Australia) and is a recipient of the Sydney Mechanics' School of
Arts Award for superior achievement in academic studies and adult
education practice. She teaches professional and creative writing
courses and/or English as a second or other language for James Cook
University of Nth Qld, TAFEOTENDE and the Central Coast Community
College (Australia). As a manuscript consultant, she assists writers
to develop fiction works in progress in Indigenised Versions of
English or Global Englishes. Sharon was born in Sussex, England
and lived in Zambia and the UK before emigrating to Sydney, Australia.
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 |
| 4 |
21st April 2003 |
14th March 2003 |
14th April 2003 |
29th June 2003 |
The aims of this course are:
- Students will be able to identify the technique
of narrative voice in fiction.
- Students will better understand how to use dialogue, monologue
and stream of consciousness when writing fiction.
- Students will develop the ability to use peer feedback to enhance
their own writing.
Contents
- Introduction to topic and discovering your own voice
- Who is telling the story? (the narrative technique of storytelling)
- Who is looking? (From whose point of view will the reader 'see'
the events of the story unfold?)
- Hearing voices (Dialogue, interior monologue and stream of consciousness)
- Who is talking? (Strategies to differentiate between the voices
of the characters)
- Harmonising (accommodating the voices and points of view in
a narrative fiction)
Typical Reading
Selections from the www
Excerpts posted by the workshop
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this
course you should be able to:
- Identify and analyse some of the techniques of narrative voice
in fiction.
- Better understand how to use dialogue, monologue and stream
of consciousness when writing fiction.
- Develop the ability to use peer feedback to enhance your own
writing.
Typical assessments
- Students will submit 3 short written pieces for assessment.
One piece of writing is designed to reveal the students' own voice;
a second piece of writing will analyse the narrative voice technique
in published fiction; a third piece of writing will demonstrate
the techniques of dialogue/internal monologue/stream of consciousness
in fiction.
- Students may also post their responses to the activities for
each session to the workshop for informal peer feedback.
- Students will also provide peer feedback in written form.
Pre-requisites for this course
You will need to:
- be able to use Word, WordPerfect or other
word-processing program (It is recommended that students have
MS Word for this course.)
- be familiar with use of a browser
- Be able to use search engines
- be able to write and understand English
reasonably fluently
- have some experience of writing fiction at a basic level
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