What can you expect from a creative writing course? What skills do you need to develop? How can you make the most of your degree course - and the opportunities it can create? This book is designed to answer those questions. It explains how to: * learn from other writers, workshops, and online study; * develop ideas and edit your own work; * present your writing and reflect on it; * understand and meet assessment requirements; * apply your learning to life after the course.
Editor's preface; 1.What to expect of a creative writing degree by Sharon Norris; 2.The skills you'll need to study creative writing by Ally Chisholm; 3.The importance of reading to your writing by Shawn Shiflett; 4.Pre-writing: how to use journals, notes and plans to improve your writing by Lorna Fergusson; 5.Workshops: what they are (and aren't) and how to make the most of them by Jennifer Young; 6. Online learning and how it can help your work by Elizabeth Reeder; 7. The role of editing and redrafting, and how to do both by Spencer Jordan; 8.'Reading aloud: making the most of your work when you present it' by Nabila Jameel; 9. The role of critical reflections and how to write them by Sharon Norris; 10. Assessment: how it's done and its implications for your work by Helen Kidd; 11. What happens next? How to proceed after graduation by Sally O'Reilly; Bibliography; Index.
