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4.00 Credits
Since Oedipus Rex, "the crime" has been one of the enginesthat drive story movement. Dostoevsky, Drieser, Petry, Dickens, Atwood, and Wright are among the many writers who use elements of the mystery and crime story to explore the psychological effects of crime on characters in fiction. By analyzing the writing techniques and processes--such as point of view, scene, voice, and story structure--of well-known writers, students will examine how murder, crime, and mystery have been transformed beyond genre to create dramatic literary fiction. By reading published work, as well as researching memoirs, journals, essays, and letters of established writers, students will explore how they may use these techniques to create compelling movement in their fiction. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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This course covers writing for comics and graphic novels: Forms and formats similar to but unique from those of narrative prose, screenwriting, and storyboarding. The full script and plot outline styles of major publishers are explored and practiced. There's an emphasis on research to enable the writer to translate the envisioned image into words for artist and audience. Business aspects such as submissions, working within publishing cooperatives, and self-publishing are presented. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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This course analyzes a selection of published young adult novels, with emphasis on the development of student works, including exploration of ideas and issues that sustain novellength material. Also studied are plot construction, writing of scene and transition, and the weaving of theme into the whole. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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Course adapts prose fiction to script form, attending to the variety of ways in which imaginative prose fiction techniques (image, scene, dialogue, summary narrative, point of view, sense of address, movement, plot and structure, and fiction material) are developed in script and applications to arts and communication fields such as advertising, scriptwriting for film, television, video, and radio. Course relates creative problem solving in prose fiction to media constraints, situations, and challenges. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4401 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Course helps writers relate the rich, various, and powerful world of dreams to the needs and delights of imaginative prose fiction. Students keep journals of their dreams, read and write dream stories, and study how dreams relate to their fiction writing, including researching the ways in which dreams have influenced the work of well-known writers. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Dialect speech and writing have richly contributed to the breadth, variety, and authenticity of American and English literature. This course provides students with informed training in listening with a "good ear" and distinguishing between "eye dialect" and dialect that is both accurately and artistically rendered, with an understanding of the tradition of dialect writing in fiction. Students keep journals and research the ways in which writers employ dialect in their fiction as well as what they have to say about such uses, while also developing a facility with dialect in their own fiction writing. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Suspense, legal and medical thrillers, crime novels, and horror-various forms of the suspense thriller-make the bestseller lists. Students read and analyze contemporary examples of the genre. In consultation with the instructor, students plan and begin writing their own suspense thrillers. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Course investigates a variety of fiction forms written for the popular market, including mysteries, romantic women's fiction, and dark fantasy novels. Emphasis is on analysis of given genres and characteristics of form and general technique. Students become aware of characteristics that define a popular genre novel and how to apply those defining techniques in their works. Because most popular fiction is market-driven, course includes some discussion of marketing. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
The ever-popular genre of historical fiction is the focus of this course, which combines the study of research techniques with fictional techniques necessary to produce marketable prose. Through reading, research, and guidance of a historical fiction writer, students produce their own historical fiction. This course fulfills the bibliography and research requirement of the Fiction Writing major. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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4.00 Credits
Course looks at the application of the broad repertoire of fiction-writing techniques and approaches to creative nonfiction and freelance tasks found in various businesses and services including the creative nonfiction that appears in a variety of publications and media. The student develops writing projects suitable for inclusion in his/her professional portfolios. 4 CREDITS COREQUISITES: 55-1101 FICTION WRITING I OR 55-4101 FICTION WRITING I
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