Writing the Past, Building New Worlds: Fiction and Non-Fiction

• • A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.

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Admission to Master of Creative Writing.

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Research is fundamental to creating innovative writing and constructing a believable storyworld: the shared universe within which settings, characters, and events unfold in a narrative. This unit focuses on developing the different types of research skills needed to create believable characters and vivid settings, and to use historical and contemporary events to ignite the imagination. Students learn how to engage in research that provides: relevant factual information for their topic; background material to assist with world-building; up-to-date scholarship on their genre of writing to gain a critical understanding of how their field has developed, and to identify current trends. Skills learned apply to different genres of writing such as historical or contemporary fiction, fantasy or futuristic writing, romance, crime, local or family history, and biography.

Assessment tasks to be advised.

• Participatory task (30%)
• Creative work (40%)
• Project plan (30%)