Screenplays available online
Classic literature out-of-copyright available on the internet.
Poetry online and on the radio (BBC Radio 4 Listen Again)
Newspapers and Periodicals online.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Alvarez A. (2006) : The Writer's Voice. Bloomsbury
Bell J. & Motion A. (2001) : The Creative Writing Coursebook.Macmillan Reference
Browne R. & King D. (2004) : Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. Harper
Hirshfield J. (1998) : Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. Harper
Koestler A. (1990) :The Act of Creation. Penguin
Lodge D. (2003) : Consciousness and the Novel. Penguin
May R. (1994) : The Courage to Create. W.W.Norton & Co.
Rabiger M. (2003) : Directing - Film Technique and Aesthetics.Focal Press

Delivered via lectures/seminars but largely through one-to-one supervision as well as through the use of materials and exercises designed to foster creative thinking which will be posted onto Blackboard. In Week 1 some general guidelines will be given and a schedule of assignments (including viewings/readings etc.), seminars and tutorials will be set up, initially to provide feedback on work from Semester 1 and to decide a strategy for revisions and adaptation of earlier work. Following mid-semester peer-review sessions, you will work largely independently, but feedback on works-in-progress will be given at intervals.

The Evaluation is intended to give you a space in which to reflect on your own technical and intellectual development and also to discuss the particular difficulties presented by the requirements of this module.

You will be expected to undertake independent research and study in order to fulfil the brief.

This module is designed to develop three essential aspects of the scriptwriter's craft: editorial skills, adaptability and creativity. There are two main strands to the course; the first is to continue the creative work begun in Semester one by first assessing the mistakes made in that work, then working to fix those mistakes, then adapting the work to some other form (script to story or poem/story to script or radio play, etc.). Following a mid-term peer-review session, the second strand is to provide you with an opportunity to continue to develop your writing 'voice' by experimenting with different ideas and forms that may not fit into any of the other modules you are taking at Level 1. This is an exercise in creativity, and the use of a creative notebook for storing ideas.

1. A Portfolio (weighted at 50%) containing an edited and adapted version of a previous piece of creative writing (script or story) (750 - 1000 words or equivalent 5-10 pages of script), together with an Evaluation of the lessons learnt from this exercise (300 - 500 words) ) (LO 1, 2, 3)

2. A Portfolio of creative ideas - a Scriptwriter's Notebook comprising creative writing in three different modes and including connecting material (visual material, photographs, snippets of conversations, newspaper clippings, reflections, quotes, etc.), weighted at 50% (1500 - 2000 words). (LO 4)