Credits and Attributions

Course Credits

Developer: Lania Knight with the Center for Distance and Independent Study
Instructional Editor: Amanda Stafford
Media Designers: Jerod Quinn and Amanda Stafford

Image and Multimedia Attributions

Title graphic

Hand-and-pen image © iStockphoto/Laser222.

Lesson 1: Getting Started

"Imagining a Scene" Exercise:

Crying woman: © iStockphoto/killerb10.
Laughing couple: © iStockphoto/track5.
Woman answering door: © iStockphoto/ebstock.

"Extracting the Diamond from the Rough" Exercise:

The Wood-Boat, by George Caleb Bingham: image is in the public domain.
Mime: courtesy of Tomas Castelazo, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5.
Woman attacking man: courtesy of the German Federal Archive, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany.

Lesson 2: How to Tell a Story

"Thinking with the Senses" Exercise:

Audio Clip 1: © iStockphoto/ghostaudio.
Audio Clip 2: © iStockphoto/Mirkic.

"The Poesy of Syntax" Exercise, refrigerator background image: © iStockphoto/Silberkorn.

Lesson 3: Creating and Conveying Character

"Distinguished Peers" Exercise:

Man using laptop: © iStockphoto/susib.
Woman on motorcycle: © iStockphoto/MargotMartin.
Woman riding the bus: © iStockphoto/ianmcdonnell.

"Anatomy of an Action" Exercise, video clip: segment from The Red House, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by United Artists, used courtesy of the Moving Images Archive, via Internet Archive. Video is in the public domain.

"Triple Entendre" Activity, audio clip: segment from chapter eleven of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, read by Karen Savage, courtesy of LibriVox. Audio recording is in the public domain.

"Sounds Like Me, Doesn't It?" Exercise:

Audio clip 1: segment from chapter one of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, read by John Greenman, courtesy of LibriVox. Audio recording is in the public domain.
Audio clip 2: segment from Kate Chopin's "The Storm," read by Alan Davis Drake, courtesy of LibriVox. Audio recording is in the public domain.

Lesson 4: Character Representation

"Looking Through Another's Eyes" Exercise, bride image: courtesy of PRA, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.

Lesson 5: Where Are We?

"The Atmospheric Science of Place" Exercise:

Nice house at night: © iStockphoto/rdegrie.
Abandoned house: © iStockphoto/shaunl.
Clean daytime beach: © iStockphoto/apomares.
Beach at sunset: © iStockphoto/juuce.
Littered beach: © iStockphoto/narvikk.
Upscale restaurant: © iStockphoto/Petrichuk.
Sidewalk cafe: © iStockphoto/webphotographeer.

"I've Got You Pegged" Exercise, desk image: courtesy of Sugar Pond, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.

Figure 5.1 © iStockphoto/RMAX.

Figure 5.2 courtesy of Kanchelskis, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.

Lesson 6: Do You Have the Time?

"That Was Quick" Exercise:

Forest fire segment from Just a Spark, produced by Handy (Jam) Organization, used courtesy of the Prelinger Archives, via Internet Archive. Video is in the public domain.
Wartime segment from It's Wanton Murder, courtesy of the Prelinger Archives, via Internet Archive. Video is in the public domain.

"The Perspective of Speed" Exercise, video clip: segment from The Red House, directed by Delmer Daves and produced by United Artists, used courtesy of the Moving Images Archive, via Internet Archive. Video is in the public domain.

Lesson 7: Story Architecture

"Location, Location, Location" Exercise:

Lesson 8: Look Who's Talking

"All the World's a Stage" Exercise:

"Duel of Alexander Pushkin and Georges d'Anthès:" image is in the public domain.
Announcer: courtesy of Rico Shen, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.

Lesson 9: Language Is Everything

"Are We Alike, or Are We the Same?" Exercise:

"You've Got to Stand for Something…" Exercise:

Bald eagle: image is in the public domain.
American flag: courtesy of Ildar Sagdejev, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.
Apple pie: courtesy of Dan Parsons, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.
U.S. Constitution: image is in the public domain.
Statue of Liberty: courtesy of featherboa, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.
Gavel: courtesy of Avjoska, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.
Scales: image is in the public domain.
Lady Justice: image is in the public domain.
Crucifix: courtesy of Szczepan1990, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5.
Star of Bethlehem: image is in the public domain.
Lamb: courtesy of Keven Law, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.
Fish and bread loaves mosaic: courtesy of Grauesel, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.
Tomb: courtesy of Bruce McAdam, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0.
Crown of thorns: courtesy of Městské Muzeum Žamberk (MMŽbk), via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.
Liberty Bell: courtesy of Serguey, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.
Abraham Lincoln penny: image is in the public domain.
Underground Railroad: courtesy of FbK Monkey, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under GNU Free Documentation, version 1.2 or later.
U.S. Declaration of Independence: image is in the public domain.
Emancipation Proclamation: image is in the public domain.
Red X: courtesy of Lcarsdata, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.5.
Red light: image is in the public domain.
Crossed-out circle: image is in the public domain.
"Don't Walk" sign: courtesy of Fb78, via Wikimedia Commons. Image licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0.
Stop sign: image is in the public domain.

Acknowledgments

"Why Write, Anyway?" by Bret Lott, published in Before We Get Started: A Practical Memoir of the Writer's Life, is reproduced electronically in this course by permission of the copyright holder.

Rights holders of any materials not credited on this page or cited within the course should contact CDIS.

Center for Distance and Independent Study English 1510: Creative Writing: Introduction to Fiction