Creative Writing
Creative Writing
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What's It All About?
What's It All About?
During your first year of the course you will get the opportunity to produce your own short story as part of your Non Exam Assessment which will be worth 10% of your final grade.
You will produce a 750 word original story with the aim of demonstrating your skills and originality in 'The Power of Storytelling'. You will also produce an accompanying commentary in which you explain and evaluate your creative choices.
"You gain really valuable knowledge into aspects of the creative writing industry and are given opportunities to enter your work into competitions, all whilst in the company of like-minded people." - Johnny
"I enjoy Creative Writing Club because it gives me complete freedom to put my ideas into a range of new and different writing styles, from poetry to short stories." - Naomi
Creative Writing Activities
Creative Writing Activities
Writing in Colour
Writing in Colour
Write a short story that starts with the word of a colour (blue, pink, green etc.). Use the colour word only once and at the start of each paragraph, but suggest/reference the colour in as many ways as possible. See below for an example.
Example
Example
The world had turned grey. Nothing but mud and gravel surrounded the unpainted house, little more than a box made of concrete blocks. Charlie, dressed in faded dusty work pants, rubber boots, and a thick granite coloured wool sweater, steadied himself with a hand on the top metal rail of a weathered cedar fence. Behind him, nothing but ash-coloured sky, bare trees, and plumes of ashen smoke belching from the factory in the distance. A lone sparrow rested on a branch, one beady silvered eye watching.
50 Word Stories
50 Word Stories
Click into the Scottish Book Trust and see their examples and previous winners.
Then write three of your own fifty word stories. You might want to use some of the ideas below.
- Entitle one of your stories after a famous work of literature eg. ‘Great Expectations’, ‘An Inspector Calls’
- Write one in second person narrative eg. ‘You awake at dawn in a field of ..’
- Write one entirely in dialogue.
- Set one of your stories 500 years in the future.
- Write one story that ends as it begins.
- Write one as an autobiography.
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