The Course So Far

This is the essence of what we have covered so far on the Open University Masters in Creative Writing. Five weeks. Five Subjects. Five sets of exercises.

Beginning: What do they convey? Hard information? Atmosphere? A sense of the exotic?
Do they raise questions in your mind? Or introduce character? Are the senses engaged? Do they inspire emotion – or is their appeal more cerebral and detached? Character: An effective way to draw a reader into the story is to create a character with whom the...