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Writing course programme 2012-2013

Session 1 19.09.2012 Introduction. Reading like a writer: how quality reading informs great writing.
Session 2 26.09.2012 Novel: story, plot, structure.
Session 3 03.10.2012 Narration: word, sentences, paragraphs. The first sentence.
Session 4 10.10.2012 Writing exercises
Session 5 17.10.2012 Character
Session 6 24.10.2012 Point of view. Narrator.
Session 7 31.11.2012 Writing exercises
Session 8 07.11.2012 Dialogue
Session 9 14.11.2012 Pace, climax, resolution
Session 10 21.11.2012 Revision and self-editing
Session 11 28.11.2012 Writing exercises
Session 12 05.12.2012 Guest speaker (a published author)
Session 13 12.12.2012 Submitting your novel. Synopsis, biography
Session 14 19.12.2012 Overview of the publishing business. Guest speaker: Michael O’Brien, publisher of The O’Brien Press & Brandon Books

Overall course review. Conclusion.

This programme is provisional and subject to modification.


‘Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.’

E. L. Doctorow

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