# Acknowledgements

This course was written by Derek Neale.

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Week 1

Figure 5 © The Open University/J Vespa (Garland)/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert (Roberts)/David Levenson (Gurnah). Ben Stansall (Roffey)/Ulf Andersen (de Bernières) - all via Getty Images/Rory Carnegie (Pears)

Figure 8 © The Open University/Getty Images/Popperfoto (Orwell)/Amy Graves (Heller)

Why writers write © The Open University/Alex Garland/Michèle Roberts/Tim Pears/Abdulrazak Gurnah/Monique Roffey/Louis de Bernières.

Week 2

Figure 1 The Open University/Getty Images/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert (Roberts)/Ben Stansall (Roffey)/J Vespa (Garland)

Figure 4 The Open University/Getty Images/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert (Roberts)/Rory Carnegie (Pears)

Figure 6 The Open University/Getty Images/Kurt Hutton (Hutton)/Marco Secchi (Atkinson)

Other writers’ rituals © The Open University/Alex Garland/Michèle Roberts/Monique Roffey

Observation – the importance of detail © The Open University/Michèle Roberts/Tim Pears

Week 3

Figure 6 The Open University/Getty Images: Earl Theisen Collection (Hemingway)/Corbis Images: Sophie Bassouls/Sygma (Gordimer)

Week 4

Figure 2 © The Open University/Rory Carnegie (Pears)/Getty Images: Anita Schiffer-Fuchs (Duncker)/J Vespa (Garland)

Figure 5 © The Open University/Corbis Images/Hulton-Deutsch Collection

Figure 10 © Courtesy Professor Fred D’Aguiar

Figure 12 © The Open University/Corbis Images/Bob Adelman

Research © The Open University/Alex Garland/Tim Pears/Patricia Duncker

Week 5

Figure 2 © The Open University/Rory Carnegie (Pears)/Getty Images: Anita Schiffer-Fuchs (Duncker)/J Vespa (Garland)

Figure 8 © The Open University/Getty Images: David Levenson (Gurnah)/Ben Stansall (Roffey)/Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert (Roberts)/J Vespa (Garland)

Research © The Open University/Alex Garland/Tim Pears/Patricia Duncker

Using yourself © The Open University/Abdulrazak Gurnah/Michèle Roberts/Monique Roffey/Alex Garland

Round and flat characters © The Open University / Extract: From Fiction Writer’s Workshop, Copyright © 2008 by Josip Novakovich. Used by permission of F+W Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

Week 6

Figure 1 © The Open University/Rory Carnegie (Pears)/Getty Images: Ulf Andersen (de Bernières)/Ben Stansall (Roffey)/J Vespa (Garland)

Figure 6 © The Open University/Corbis Images/Bettmann

Ways of developing characters © The Open University/Tim Pears/Monique Roffey/Alex Garland/Louis de Bernières

Building a new character © The Open University / Extract: From Fiction Writer’s Workshop, Copyright © 2008 by Josip Novakovich. Used by permission of F+W Media, Inc. All rights reserved.

Week 7

Figure 1 © The Open University/Rory Carnegie (Pears)/Getty Images: Ulf Andersen (de Bernières)/Anita Schiffer-Fuchs (Duncker)/J Vespa (Garland); Audio: © The Open University/Louis de Bernières/Patricia Duncker/Tim Pears/Alex Garland

Activity 7.2 extract from Morrison, T. (1992), Jazz (p. 6), Chatto and Windus.

OpenLearn - Start writing fiction: characters and stories
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