Advanced Creative Writing (Online) offered by Oxford University
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Advanced Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Overview
Duration | 10 weeks |
Total fee | ₹43,000 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Course Level | UG Certificate |
Advanced Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from Oxford university
Advanced Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Course details
- Understand how to develop their ideas into a coherent, engaging and commercially viable piece of fiction
- Become familiar with a range of fiction genres and learn how to shape their work accordingly
- Critically analyse and discuss their own work with an awareness of the expectation of a public and professional readership
- Develop confidence in their own original writing style
- Ability to plan and structure ideas into a coherent outline for a novel
- Understanding of good working practice and self-editing
- This is an advanced course designed for students who have completed one of the introductory courses such as Getting Started in Creative Writing, or one or more of the specialist courses such as Writing Fiction, Writing Poetry, Writing Drama, or Writing Young Adult Fiction, or a similar course
- The development of online publishing opportunities has given rise to an increased commercial success of the self-published author
- Beginning with an investigation of how fiction can be created from the writer''s own experience, this course will explore the techniques used to develop and structure a sustained piece of original prose to a commercially viable standard
- We will look at character creation and development across a variety of genres
- We will learn how to assess the thematic content of contemporary fiction and how this is expressed in the progression of plot
- We will examine how description and metaphor are used to support narrative purpose
- At the same time, we will explore the role of the writer as self-editor and how close-reading and critical thinking can enable improved confidence in the development of a unique, individual voice which will appeal to a broad readership
Advanced Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Curriculum
Write what you know
Inspiration and application of ideas
How to write from personal experience and develop anecdote and memory into a piece of fiction
Beginnings, Middles, Endings
How 3 act structure shapes a story
Where to start a story
Analysis of crisis points and reader expectation
The relationship between main plot and subplot
Character 1
How to create a complex protagonist
Departure from expected archetypes
Internal vs. external life of character
The character with a secret
Character growth vs. character decline
Character 2
Supporting characters and their function in story
The difference between primary and secondary characters and subsequent influence of story development
Secondary characters as chorus and jury
The role of the hidden/ invisible main character
What kind of story
Genre expectation and how to subvert it
How to fit original ideas to specific genres
Commercial expectations of mainstream genres
How to subvert known genres
What's it all about
Thematic development in story
How to identify the themes in self-created writing; how to dramatise these in character development and action to fit commercial expectation
Complex plotting
Planning and execution in story
The concept of dual-plotting, and how this can play with readers' expectation
Whose story is it anyway
Narrative point of view
How to choose your narrator and dramatic perspective to best serve plot and character development
How to tell it
Use of description and metaphor
How descriptive prose can reveal character; the use of metaphor to provide clues within a complex narrative
When is it finished
Self-editing
Good editorial practice, with a focus on how to create text to the standard expected by publishers and agents
How to create write synopsis and covering letter for commercial consideration
Advanced Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Faculty details
Advanced Creative Writing (Online) at Oxford University Entry Requirements
- Prerequisite: Familiar with using a computer for purposes such as sending email and searching the Internet
- Yes
- In countries where the normal examinations have been cancelled, university will expect the conditions of student's offer to be met by the alternative assessment put in place by qualifications' regulators.
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