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| English 321.001: Creative Writing: Fiction In this intermediate fiction writing class, we will attempt to demonstrate, to ourselves and others, how fiction matters and how craft breathes life into it. This class should expand and strengthen an already emergent sense of craft. By the end of the semester, your characters should become more complex, your descriptive language more resonant, your plots more subtle. The class will focus on the development of the "habit" of art, emphasizing process more than product, emphasizing exploration, risk taking, and pushing yourself to write in ways that you could not write before. In the beginning weeks of class, we will focus on generating material, experimenting with different craft techniques, creating the messy "stuff" out of which all good writing comes. From this, each student will produce two story drafts, and afterwards revise and polish them to include in a final portfolio of creative work. Throughout the semester, we will also focus on the ways that good writing is collaborative and that responding constructively to another's work is an equally important skill, and as much an act of the imagination. In order to write well, we must read well, and read as writers, and so this class will combine workshopping with the discussion of published authors. Finally, I hope to debunk the myth of the artist. We all can participate in the making of art. |
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