COURSE DESCRIPTION

Advanced Creative Writing/Online Literary Lab (summer term) is a 10-week-long online course which consists of the following advanced creative tasks:

TASK 1: Dialogues!

Students become familiar literary strategies and concepts of creating effective and efficient dialogues. Utilising the discussed “dos and don’ts” of dialogue writing, students choose one of the given topics and write a piece of creative writing that builds up around a sparkling and naturally flowing dialogue.

TASK 2: Creative Technologies 1: Narrating (with) Time

Students become familiar literary strategies that help them to manipulate, juggle and play with the representation of time in their stories. Using these strategies, students choose one of the given topics and write a piece of creative writing that builds up around the problem of time in fiction writing.

TASK 3: Creative Technologies 2: Symbols and Motifs

Examining the use of symbols and/or recurring motives in literature and poetry, students will become acquainted with the way these elements might be used to enhance the poetic quality of their texts. Utilising discussed strategies and concepts, students will be asked to write their short story based on a piece of poetry, accommodating the symbols and/or motives of the poem in their text.

TASK 4: Creative Technologies 3: Shaping your Style!

Coming closer to discovering and shaping their own style, students will examine different literary styles (including choice of words, choice of sentences and choice of paragraphs). Consciously reflecting on their style (by examining and scrutinising the texts submitted for tasks 1 - 3), the students will be asked to rewrite a section of a book or a short story of their choice, appropriating it to their newly defined literary style.

TASK 5: Revision

For their final task, students are asked to choose and resubmit one of the texts submitted for previous tasks 1 - 4. They are expected to consider and eventually incorporate changes and/or correct mistakes or any other problems pointed out by instructor in his review and write a brief analysis of the changes made.