AFRC123 - Adv Writing For Children

This is a course for students who have completed either English 121 or at least one other creative writing class. We will focus on writing works for children from early chapter books to older teen fiction and the importance of creating compelling charaters, a good plot, excellence pacing, a distinctive voice, and an appropriate theme with the goal of each student refining an existing project or beginning work on a new one. There will be at least one reading and one writing assignment each week. Exercises may include studies in voice, point of view, plot development, humor, description, developing a fantasy world, writing historical fiction, or memior. Class work will include reading a wide variety of published work for children and/or young adults, from chapter books to novels, as examples of the genre. Prerequisite: This is a course for students who have completed either ENGLISH 121 or at least one other Creative Writing class. On the side, for funsies, and to assuage the must-write fast urge, you will also write bits and blogs.