第一章 Welcome to Creative Writing

1.1 The Foundation of Creative Writing: The Senses

1.2 Building on the Foundation: Using the Senses

1.3 Multi-genre Creative Writing Prompts, Waking Up Attention, Using the Senses, Memory

1.4Connecting with Readers, Authors and Audiences

第一章 单元测试

第二章 Writing Poems

2.1.1 The Music in Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Rhyme, Rhythm, Alliteration

2.1.2 The Building Blocks of Poems: Lines, Enjambment, End-stop

2.1.3 Figurative Language, Hyperbole, Repetition

2.1.4 The Sonnet, Classical Forms, Iambic Pentameter

2.1.5 Image, Diction, Metaphor

2.2.1 Organizing Poems, Stanzas, Balance, Harmony

2.2.2 Music, The Senses, Figurative Language, Onomatopoeia

2.2.3 Occasional Poems, Ode, Elegy, Epithalamium

2.2.4 Going Deeper into Rhyme, Echo, Sound

2.2.5 Going Deeper into Rhythm, Meter, Scansion

2.3.1 Conventional Form: The Cinquain

2.3.2 Visual Poetry

2.3.3 Free verse, Conversational Diction, Personal Uses of Form

2.3.4 Tempo, Pacing, Narrative Structure, Stanza Development

2.3.5 Open Poetic Forms, List Poem, Found Poem, Walk Poem

第二章 单元测试

第三章 Writing Fiction

3.1.1 Getting Started in Fiction: Literary Fiction and Genre Fiction

3.1.2 Romance, Fantasy, Horror

3.1.3 Historical Fiction, Doing Research

3.1.4 Science Fiction

3.1.5 Literary fiction: The Basics

3.2.1 Characters and characterization

3.2.2 Plot

3.2.3 Setting

3.2.4 Narrator, point of view

3.2.5 Dialogue

3.3.1 Flash fiction, Prose poems, Very Short Stories

3.3.2 Detective Fiction, Mystery Fiction

3.3.3 Starting the Short Story

3.3.4 Narrative Design, Beginnings, Endings

3.3.5 Exercises, Revision, Word Bank, Journey Motif, Personification

第三章  单元测试

第四章 Writing Creative Nonfiction

4.1.1 Truth, Reality, Experience

4.1.2 Life Writing, Memoir, Autobiography

4.1.3 Nature, Travel, Food

4.1.4 Meditative Essay, Lyrical Essay

4.1.5 The Body, Being Human, The Self

4.2.1 Narrator, Point of View

4.2.2 Information, Research

4.2.3 Kinds of Narrative Structure

4.2.4 Tense, Immediacy, The Miniature

4.2.5 Person, Tense

4.2.6 Interdisciplinary Creative Nonfiction

4.3.1 Using Photos, Memories, Journals

4.3.2 Braided Essays, Sound, Diction

4.3.3 Childhood Wonder, Making it New

4.3.4 The Segmented Essay

4.3.5 Using Technology: Blogs, The Video Essay, The Graphic Essay

第四章  章节测试

第五章 Writing Drama

5.1 The 10-Minute Play, The Basic Structure, Characters, Plot, Conflict

5.2 Theme, Characters, Dialogue

5.3 Writing a Film Script

5.4 Audience, Publication, Performing

第五章  章节测试