Course Options
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Overview
This course will appeal to aspiring fiction writers, popular fiction enthusiasts.
Modern consumers crave quick fixes, e.g. viral YouTube clips, bite-sized news, text messages, pop-up ads. It’s the same in the world of fiction.
This course will show you how to construct, develop and finesse short prose/flash fiction stories, with an emphasis on fusion between popular genres, subversion of convention, and techniques for miniaturising stories to try and enable you to craft nuggets of gold from the fundamentals of storytelling. The course will also advise on how to ‘sell’ these stories by exploring the fiction market and the literary realms of social media.
Minimum entry requirements
- A love of storytelling and a desire to potentially make some money from short fiction writing.
What you study
- Narrative Technique.
- Genre.
- Flash fiction.
- Dialogue.
- Characterisation.
- Plotting.
- Endings.
After the course
Write professional-standard, appealing stories and attempt to infiltrate a growth area in the popular fiction and e-book markets.
Continuing study
HNC Professional Writing at City of Glasgow College.
How the course is taught
The course will be taught via lectures and workshops.
Materials
No materials are required.