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Welcome: module overview & reading material
5 - Creative Storytelling Best Practices & Minor Project
Welcome to your fifth module.
In this module, we'll cover:
- How to show and not tell
- The power in prose: how to write beautifully
- How to build real people and places
- Serving tapas
- Your options for publishing
Although this module is more geared towards fiction writer, those who wish to improve their non-fiction writing should sit this module since we'll be learning creative techniques that can be applied to both types of writing.
Please refer to the reading material's list for resources that we'll be looking at throughout this module.
Let's go!
Module Reading Material:
For fiction writers:
- The Kite Runner & A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini
- No One Belongs Here More Than You: Miranda July
- Golden Boy: Ray Slater Berry
For non-fiction writers:
We’ll be referring to these texts throughout this module for examples.