AustLit

This unit offers you advanced techniques in writing, editing and publishing, including development of advanced narrative techniques. It aims to give you an opportunity to develop different writing techniques and styles through a closely guided series of writing exercises and theoretical analyses. This is a closely directed opportunity to consider your work closely on the level of language and technique.

Aims

This unit aims to develop writers' awareness of stylistic and technical devices used in creating prose fiction. It aims to help you write and present a portfolio of specifically situated creative works through to publication stage.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:

1. demonstrate an applied understanding of a broad range of stylistic and technical devices used in writing and publishing prose fiction

2. analyse critically and engage with stylistic and technical devices used by a wide range of published authors

3. develop and write experimental narrative, including deliberate manipulation of reader experience through critically applied technique

4. apply techniques of rewriting and editing to both linear and non-linear narrative

Content

The unit content addresses a mixture of reader response and narrative theory, a series of focused writing exercises designed to strengthen specific prose techniques, advanced narrative technique, and practice-based guided writing.