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Writing Long Fiction

Undergraduate | CUR-CWG310 | 2023

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Explore what it takes to write a novella or novel, and the challenges that can arise when planning a long fiction project. Analyse how other contemporary writers have succeeded. Compose several chapters and a synopsis for a new piece of work.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
13 weeks

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Writing Long Fiction

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

    1. identify and critically discuss the key concepts involved in planning and carrying out long fiction projects
    2. analyse and critically discuss the ways in which contemporary writers are working with the long story, the novella and the novel as form
    3. constructively critique work-in-progress by other writers and demonstrate the capacity to discriminate and apply selected criticism to their own work
    4. create relevant chapters and a synopsis for a new work of long fiction, novella or novel.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

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