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Business 136: Introduction to Fiction Writing

• Average Time Commitment per Week: 2-3 hours
  
  
• Time to Complete Course: 5 Weeks
  
  
• Difficulty (1-5): 1 = Beginner
  
  
• Course Description: A basics or refresher course for beginning writers. This course will cover how to incorporate the five senses, point of view, dialogue and voice into our writing. We'll finish with format guidelines needed to present your finished article, short story, or novel to write our final assignment. This course is intended to introduce four of the important elements needed to begin writing fiction.
  
  
• Method of Presentation/Instruction: Weekly online readings, weekly lessons
  
  
• Required Resources (texts, etc.): None
  
  
• Resources Used:
  
  • Make Your Words Work, Gary Provost
    
  • Writing Fiction, Janet Burroway
    
  • The Writer's Digest Handbook of Novel Writing, editors of Writer's Digest
    
    
  • Lesson 1: Heightening the Senses
  • Lesson 2: Active Voice is the Name of the Game
  • Lesson 3: Point of View and its Importance
  • Lesson 4: The Art of Dialogue
  • Lesson 5: The Manuscript
  • Receive lessons by email (Just send us a blank message.)
    

• Classroom A
• Classroom B

Course developed by: Priscilla Fagan

Facilitated by: Peer Group