Hello there,
development of these guideline notes to accompany the creative writing courses I 'm teaching, have been delayed somewhat.  I see there have been a few visitors, so I am refining some thoughts for the Intro to Fiction course, that is underway, and I shall post them here before too long!

Sorry about that if anyone was looking for them.

In the meantime, for your consideration:  A celebration in memory of Margaret Mahy,

http://www.education.auckland.ac.nz/uoa/home/about/news/news/template/news_item.jsp?cid=507417

and this fabulous short story to read.   Delphine

Week 5

In which we talk to eachother.  Out loud.

Week 4,
In which we talk about reading.

Now that we're set up with quite a lot of information about structure within writing forms, and around writers in their community, let's break that up and talk about

Audience perception
Language poetry
Inter-disciplinary concepts,



Write it out

Presentation of work

Choosing pieces to be in the book,
giving feedback

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The non-competitive short story

Eliminating struggle and receiving gifts.

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Writing.

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HOME

Chaos inspired precision.  

Week 3.
In which we observe someone else talking to someone else.

Week 2.

In which we talk about someone else

Week 1.

In which we talk about ourselves.

Aristotle's trajectory

Introduction to Creative Writing

for now.