Stories and creative writing
Develop a character-driven story, test choices of viewpoint, scene, dialogue and structure, and produce a substantial revision with an adaptation.
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Preparation: Begin with an invented person who wants something concrete. Personal disclosure is not required. You may use the supplied premises, invent your own or adapt a public-domain work with attribution.
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0/6 investigations completed. Portfolio: not submitted. These records do not certify proficiency.
Lesson sequence
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Put a character under a small pressure
Reveal a character through a consequential choice rather than relying only on trait labels.
Tell the same event from another edge
Control what a narrator can know and compare the effects of narrative viewpoint and distance.
Spend story time where it matters
Use scene and summary deliberately to control pace and emphasis.
Write what characters will not say directly
Write dialogue in which speakers pursue different goals and use action beats to make tension inspectable.
Make an ending grow from an earlier choice
Design an ending that changes the meaning of an earlier detail while preserving causal coherence.
Revise the story’s decisions, not just its adjectives
Use workshop evidence to revise a story’s causal, viewpoint or structural choices while preserving an intentional voice.
A revised story and adaptation
Develop a complete short story from a course seed or an original premise, revise it through a documented workshop process, and adapt a scene into another viewpoint or dramatic form.
Course practice consists of the six investigations and the portfolio. The project rubric makes the quality expectations explicit; human review remains separate.
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