Course details

Name: ENWR - 250

Title: SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING: FAN FICTION

Section: 03

Semester: Fall - 2022

Credits: 3

Description:
​In Fan Fiction and Origin Stories, we will be thinking about creativity and originality in a different context. While expanding on the core concepts of writing you learned about in Intro to Fiction, we will discuss how to develop an original voice and point of view within an established framework or narrative universe. Adding to a story that has already been told or, in many cases, is still being developed and expanded is a type of creative writing that presents its own set of unique challenges. How does one maintain a sense of ownership and originality when contributing to worlds already created by other writers? What types of creative license is a writer able to take when doing so? How can contributing to an established universe open up new and rewarding possibilities for crafting one’s own original voice? We will examine all of these questions and more as we embark on a creative experiment to make the personal universal, the unoriginal original, and the expected startlingly fresh.

Each of our three units with culminate with an original piece that will go through several rounds of revision, both individually and within a group workshop setting. In addition, we will work on shorter, informal writing assignments to help generate material and develop particular skills of storytelling.

Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 9:45 am To 11:00 am

Graduation requirements:

• Genre Study (Fiction)
• Creative Writing (CW)

Teaching Faculty: Margenau Henry (margenauh)

Is course canceled: No