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Start writing fiction: characters and stories
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Acknowledgements

This course was written by Derek Neale.

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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)

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

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

Text

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.