Short Story Creative Writing

Study Short Story Creative Writing using Online Video

With this title, you'll trace the development of the short story as a form of literature and analyze the elements of short fiction. Use our 4 online educational video titles to trace the development of the short story as a form of literature. Learn how ballads, fables, fairy tales, and epic poems gave birth to this unique form of writing. Analyze some of literature's classic short stories: Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle," Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart," and Katherine Mansfield's "The Doll's House."

Learning Objectives:

Explore the historical development of the short story, beginning with the literary traditions of the ancient cultures of Egypt, Greece, Rome, and China, and continuing with the storytelling traditions of medieval Europeans and the Eskimos.
Survey the tradition of oral storytelling and examine the short story as a literary form.
Explain the cultural significance of fables, ballads, romances, myths, legends, folktales, and epic poems, and discuss their role as precursors to the short story.
Analyze the elements of the short story, using excerpts and summaries from works by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, and Katherine Mansfield that show character development, setting, mood, plot, conflict, theme, point of view, and the author's writing style.
Gain insight to the creative writing process, using an actual student's story as a model.