Course description
This course aims to
It aims to help you find new ideas for your work and then look at techniques that will help you go on and develop these ideas
into finished pieces. The emphasis in the first part of the course will be on generating raw material for your work, while in the
second part of the course we will study and practise techniques for developing these ideas into more fully fledged pieces of
writing.
We will play a lot of word games in the classes to generate ideas and stimulate inspiration.
We will start with basic games such as:
- introducing each other and introducing the topic
- finding characters from names
- using images in writing
- exercises in how to make images
- writing games to stimulate imagination and ideas for description, plots and stories
- games in showing and telling
- games with dialogue
- we will also work with poetry, prose and scripts.
This will be a course that constantly assists you to surprise yourself; to make use of serendipity and accident and to ally this to
a good grounding in writing techniques that will help you shape this material into good, finished and satisfying pieces.
This CCE course carries higher education credit, which recognises students' learning. To facilitate that recognition, students
undertake written or oral assignments during their course of study, and some of the resulting work is presented for
assessment. The assignment s are introduced by the tutor as an integral part of the course and are used as a means of enabling students to assimilate the course material and consolidate their learning in an enjoyable and stimulating way.
Who is this course is for?
This course is for beginners and more experienced writers who want some fun and stimulation in their writing.
What materials will I need?
LIBRARY
Card, Dibell: How to Write A Million 1999 Robinson Books
Sykes, Chris: (2009) Your Complete Evening Class in CW Teach Yourself
The Creative Writing Coursebook (2001)
De Bono (2007) How to have creative ideas
Students are advised not to buy books until after their first session.
Contact details for this course
Please contact GAE to enrol on this course or for more information.
Contact name
Support Officer Oliver Fisher
Post
Brighton Junction,
Isetta Square,
Brighton,
BN1 4GQ
Telephone
01273 810210
