Irvine Valley College

Online Creative Writing Workshop

Writing 10 - Introduction to Creative Writing

Fall 2011 - Ticket # 64425

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA, Instructor

Weekly Lectures, Writing Exercises, and Reading List

The following links will take you to the Weekly Lectures, Writing Exercise Assignments, and Reading List.  

In addition, you will need to write a piece for the Formal Workshop (see below)

Week 1:  Introductions and Orientation  - January 9 - January 15

Week 2:  Creating Images and Characters - January 16 - January 22

Week 3:  Which Live In and Out of Time - January 23 - January 29

Week 4:  And have a Room of Their Own - January 30 - February 5

Week 5:  With a Style You Like - February 6 - February 12

Week 6:  Filled with the Light of Truth - February 13 - February 19

Week 7:  Point of View I. - February 20 - February 26

Week 8:  Point of View II. - February 27 - March 5

Week 9 & 10:  Point of View III. - March 6 - March 18 (Includes Spring Break)

Week 11:  Default Assumptions - March 19 - March 25

Week 12:  Plotting - March 26 - April 1

Week 13:  Beginnings and Endings - April 2 - April 8

Week 14:  Rewrites - April 9 - April 15

Week 15:  Dialog - April 16 - April 22

Week 16 & 17:  Review and Workshop Favorites - April 23 - May 8

 

Formal Workshop Pieces

Formal Writing Workshop:  Your Weekly Writing Exercises are designed to introduce you to some important techniques of writing fiction, poetry, and drama.  These will not be finished pieces, however - they are just exercises and fragments of things you might want to write.  The Formal Writing Workshop is where we will showcase finished work.  Some of you may have pieces that you have completed before class began, some of you may choose to "finish" one of your Weekly Exercises, and some of you may choose to write a new piece to submit to the Formal Workshop.  You must complete and submit at least one piece to the Formal Workshop during the semester.  You can do that as soon as you are ready, and I will be taking names of writers and which week they would like to submit!  

 

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink:  write to me with questions!

Marjorie Coverley Luesebrink, MFA, your Instructor, is a Professor of English in the School of Humanities and Languages, Irvine Valley College, Irvine, California.

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