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Having embarked on a writing a novel, it can be hard to stay the course and keep writing. This course offers constructive writing advice, collective discussion, invigorating exercises and group feedback to keep budding novelists motivated. Together we'll examine inspiring examples to discover what makes readers want to keep turning the page. Writing exercises will help us apply these techniques to our own writing and share our work for group feedback. We will also discuss practical habits and ideas that help us keep writing. Most of all, this course provides motivating company, good advice and inspiration for you to keep working on your ambition to write a novel.

Block 4

2 hours per week for 10 weeks

Saturday, 10:00-12:00

None, though some prior experience of creative writing (such as starting to write a novel or a novel idea in development) would be beneficial either in your own practice or as can be found on the following courses

- ADED11337 Introduction to Creative Writing

- ADED11452 Creative writing workshop

- Introduction to Fiction Writing: novel and short story

- Introduction to novel writing: getting started

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To assess ILOs 1 and 2:

Portfolio (1,500 words) of an original novel extract in the form of several shorter pieces, extract(s) from a longer work or one singular complete piece (75%)

Note: students opting to submit a revised version of work that has already submitted for credit on another course must clearly highlight any passages from that work and they should not exceed 10% of the entire wordcount to avoid auto or self-plagiarism as per the University of Glasgow's plagiarism statement 32.2

To assess ILO 3:

Self-reflective essay (500 words) discussing their future plans for their novel and how advice discussed on the course could help them achieve this (25%).

The aims of this course are to:

■ Introduce students to more of the key literary characteristics of the novel form such as plot, pace and structure through textual analysis of notable examples

■ Encourage individual, creative approaches to the novel form through practical writing exercises that enable students to apply key techniques to their own writing

■ Build students' confidence and resilience by submitting their creative writing for peer and tutor feedback, and discussion of helpful writing habits

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ Identify more of the key literary characteristics of the novel form and apply these to their own writing

■ Compose further persuasive, artistically coherent and technically competent written work that demonstrates key techniques of the literary form being attempted

■ Further reflect upon their own creative process and that of others, including helpful writing habits

Students must submit at least 75% by weight of the components (including examinations) of the course's summative assessment.