Creating Fiction (Writing Strands) - Softcover

Marks, Dave

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888344016 ISBN 13: 9781888344011

Publisher: National Writing Ins, 2007

Synopsis

This book is for students who have finished Writing Strands 7. Ideal for students interested in advanced work in creative writing, Creating Fiction teaches advanced methods of developing short stories and other creative works. Assignments are directed to the student. The book takes one full school year to complete.

Scope and Sequence:

• Establishing Location for Narrative Voice
• Further Work in Establishing Narrative Voice Position
• Reader Identification with Character
• Point of View
• Truth in the Narrative Voice
• Using Senses
• Creating Dramatic Dialogue
• Predicting Reader Reactions
• Using Symbols
• Identification and Symbolism in Flashback
• Creating Mood
• Satire
• Learning Control of Tense Use
• Speaking Patterns
• Information Given in Description
• Controlling Structure
• Creating Characters

About this title

About the Author

Dave Marks, the founder of National Writing Institute and the author of the Writing Strands and Reading Strands series of books, graduated from Western Michigan University. He then received a Masters of Arts degree from Central Michigan University and did 45 more hours of graduate work in English at Eastern Michigan University and Michigan State University. Dave retired after 30 years of teaching writing in college, high school, junior high and grade school.

When their son was in the fourth grade, Dave and his wife Lea realized that he was not being given the training they felt he needed and elected to homeschool him in language arts. To prepare him for college writing, they designed a series of lessons, which he completed by the age of twelve. That summer, they enrolled him in freshman English at Lake Michigan College, where he received his first A in college work. He is now a poet and university professor.

Dave and Lea later turned these lessons into the Writing Strands series of books. While Dave never maintained that the series could create poets for other homeschooling parents, he felt that if children worked successfully through the Writing Strands series of books, they would have the skills needed for the challenge of any writing assignment in their undergraduate college work.

Edition details

• Publisher: National Writing Ins
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1888344016
• ISBN 13: 9781888344011
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 140