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ENGL 482: Advanced Fiction Writing (Rev. C2)
ENGL 482: Advanced Fiction Writing (Rev. C2)
English 482: Advanced Fiction Writing is the next step for students who have taken English 381 or a similar introductory course in writing fiction. The course provides an option to work on separate short stories or linked stories, or develop a longer narrative, whether a novel, novella, or novel-in-stories. Students read sample fiction with close attention to technique and style; they also read and comment in a properly informed manner on the work-in-progress of their peers and further their revision.
Textbook
Unit 1: The Writing Process: Why Write?
Unit 2: Reading as a Writer
Unit 2: Reading as a Writer [video]
Unit 2 video transcript
MacLeod, Alistair. "'At the Moment': Notes on Fiction." In The Art of Short Fiction , Brief Edition. Edited by Gary Geddes. Don Mills, ON: Addisson-Wesley, 1999, pp. 361–362.
Munro, Alice. "What Is Real?" In The Art of Short Fiction , Brief Edition. Edited by Gary Geddes. Don Mills, ON: Addison-Wesley, 1999, pp. 362–365.
Messud, Claire. Excerpt from The Last Life: A Novel. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 1999, pp. 4–7.
Vassallo, Tim. "Hockey Night in Cape Breton." © Tim Vassallo, 2003. Reproduced with permission.
Ford, Richard. The opening of Independence Day . Toronto: Little, Brown (Canada), 1995, pp. 3–5.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. The opening of The Feast of the Goat . Translated by Edith Grossman. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, pp. 3–6.
Unit 3: Creating Character
Unit 3: Creating Character [video]
Unit 3 video transcript
Shields, Carol. "Mrs. Turner Cutting the Grass." In Canadian Short Stories , 4th series. Edited by Robert Weaver. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Carver, Raymond. "Popular Mechanics." In What We Talk About When We Talk About Love: Stories. New York: Random, 1989.
Jin, Ha. Excerpt from Waiting . New York: Vintage International, 2000, pp. 79–80, 190–191.
Edwards, Caterina. Excerpt 1 from Becoming Emma . Edmonton: NeWest Press, 1992, pp. 144–151.
Unit 4: Creating a Structure
Unit 5: Style
Unit 6: Revision
