Research Methods Module Week 7

Achievements this week:

Writing

• Did some pace, voice and character exercises from Writing Children's Fiction
• Continued free writing as a way of getting story going
• Finished Freddie's character chart
• Made a timetable for completion of CW2
• Added creative work/research completed onto blog as a 'log'

Reading

• Read a lot more of Writing Children's Fiction
• Kept reading The Graveyard Book 
• Read and made notes on section of Introduction to Children's Literature

Plans for next week:

Writing 

• Character development
• Plot
• Add creative work/research completed onto blog as a 'log'
• Free Writing, continuing with chapter 1 and 2 
• Prepare for tutorial- be ready to talk about the work I've been doing in terms of character and plot etc- put some things on the wiki for discussion

Reading

• Finish reading Writing Children's Fiction!
• Finish reading The Graveyard Book
• Research focus on exercises for development of character, especially regarding voice and dialect and how each character talks.
• Look at dialect in The Secret Garden and its limitations for children.
• Plot development exercises and techniques  
• Read prep for guest speaker next week

Research

• Start sorting notes (duplicating) into subject matter to make them easier to refer to- dissertation question, plot, character