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CTYOnline - Crafting Fiction

Open to: Grades 8 - 12
Formats: Email
Challenge Level: college undergraduate
Prerequisite: one course below:

CTYOnlineWriting Analysis & Persuasion
CTY Summer Programs Critical Essay
CAA Summer ProgramsCritical Essay

Recommended School Credit: 0.5 credit
Session Based: Session Dates and Application Deadlines
Length: 20 weeks, 12 weeks Early Summer, or 6 weeks Intensive Mid Summer

Alternating literary analysis with imaginative writing, students examine principles and practices of fiction writing, such as plot, theme, and character development. Fiction assignments are typical of those in John Gardner's books The Art of Fiction and On Becoming a Novelist and of those in undergraduate fiction courses such as the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.

The course strongly emphasizes comprehensive revision based on comments from the instructor. By the end of the course, students have polished pieces of short fiction which demonstrate their working knowledge of the principal tenets of writing fiction.

Sample Assignment

Time Required:

  • 2 hours weekly for 20 week sessions
  • 3.5 hours weekly for 12 week summer session
  • 1.5 hours Monday - Friday during 6 week Mid Summer Intensive Session

Learn more about the summer sessions.

Get more information from Frequently Asked Questions.

Detailed Course Information

System Requirements

All CTY Online courses require a properly-maintained computer with Internet access and a recent-version web browser (such as Explorer 6, Firefox, or Safari). Students are expected to be familiar with standard computer operations (e.g. login, cut & paste, email attachments, etc).

Spam blockers, parental controls, and other internet filtering software must allow email from JHU (jhu.edu & jhem.jhu.edu), and from the instructor's email address (provided at start of course).

Important: Frequent changing of a student's screen name or email address is inversely proportional to success.

If this course uses a web-based classroom for assignments and group discussion, your browser will need to allow cookies, javascript, and popup windows from the classroom web site.

You may test a web-based classroom.

Course code: dfic

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