Overview
Registrations close 2 weeks prior to course start.
This course is open to anyone over the age of 18, including international participants.
- Delivery
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Where:
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
When:
Musk Avenue
Kelvin GroveJune 2013 course:
- Saturday 15 June: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
November 2013 course:
- Saturday 9 November: 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
- Cost
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- Standard fee: $412.50
- Early bird discounted fee: $371.25
Fees include GST.
For the June 2013 course: early bird discount available until 5pm Saturday 18 May 2013.
For the November 2013 course: early bird discount available until 5pm Saturday 12 October 2013. - Contact
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For further information about course content or assessment, contact the Creative Industries Faculty, Commercial Programs Office.
For registration or payments queries, please contact the Office of Continuing Professional Education.
Details
Registrations close 2 weeks prior to course start.
Write your first novel
You have a great idea for a novel but you don't know where to start. Learn a range of techniques and methods to approach a novel-length project and help you negotiate the dangers in those fraught first steps.
Develop and practice your novel writing skills by taking a close look at the elements of successful novel writing. Throughout the day, you will take part in informal, informative and engaging workshops. You will break down and practically consider beginnings, middles and endings and other elements of the novel, such as character development, plot and structure and settings and themes. You will exchange work with your classmates to read and discuss and receive feedback from the tutor.
By the end of the day of talks and workshops, you should end up with an outline for your first novel and a plan to help you finish it.
The day is broken up into three sessions.
Session 1 - Keep the reader reading
9:30am -11:30am
A presentation and writing exercises on good beginnings and 'People and places', the building blocks or elements of a story.
Session 2: Point A to Point C
12:00pm -2:00pm
A presentation about making life difficult for your character and features writing exercises on the 'difficult' middle, plot, and structure.
Session 3: Never write 'the end'
2:30pm - 4:30pm
A presentation and writing exercises on endings. Discuss your work with the tutor and consider ways to go further with your work.
Tutor
Lee McGowan is an award-winning writer. His first novel-length work, a football fiction, was shortlisted for the 2007 Queensland Premier's Literary Award emerging author category. He won the 2009 QUT Writing Prize and became a Varuna Fellow in 2011.
His second novel-length manuscript was developed for his recently completed PhD on Football in Literature. It is currently being considered by his literary agent.
He's written a range of non-fiction articles (predominantly about football, writing and music) for publications such as The Smith Journal, M/C Journal, The Global Game, WQ, strange bOUnce, The Courier Mail, The Independent and street press magazines.
Dr McGowan is an Associate Lecturer in QUT's prestigious Creative Writing and Literary Studies Discipline. He has been tutoring in creative writing courses for over four years and has also run a number of creative writing workshops for Queensland Writers Centre.
Registration info
Registrations close 2 weeks prior to course start.
This course is open to anyone over the age of 18, including international participants.
Payment
Pay online by credit card only. Have your credit card handy.
Early bird discount
We offer a 10% early bird discount if you register 4 weeks before the course starts.
Registrations
If the course is full, please email the Office of Continuing Professional Education to register your interest. We will advise you by email if a second class becomes available.
Registrations close 10 working days before the start of the course. Subject to availability, we will take late registrations, however, you will incur a $100 administration fee.
Cancellation
To cancel your registration, you must apply in writing to the course manager at the Office of Continuing Professional Education. If you cancel 10 business days before the course starts, we will fully refund your fee, less the non-refundable $100 registration fee.
No registration refunds will be made within 10 business days of the course starting.
QUT Creative Industries reserves the right to cancel a course due to unforeseen circumstances or should insufficient registrations be received to run a short course. In this event, we will advise you as soon as possible, and provide a full refund or register you for another course of equivalent value. QUT are not responsible for any expenses you may have incurred if the course is cancelled.
