421  Advanced Fiction Writing Fall 2006 Greg Martin Syllabus Calendar of Readings & Responsibilities

Stories, Essays & Interviews  On E-reserve at Zimmerman Library*   password:  study421

• Chris Offutt's "The Eleventh Draft" 

• Richard Ford's "Reading" 

• George Saunders's "Adams"

• George Saunders's "The Barber's Unhappiness" 

• Interview with George Saunders    

• John Barth's "Incremental Perturbation:  How to Know Whether You've Got a Plot or Not"

• An Interview with Jane Smiley

• Jane Smiley's "What Stories Teach Their Writers 

• Joyce Carol Oates's "Naked" (3 drafts)

• An Interview with Joyce Carol Oates

• Stephen Koch's "Working & Reworking:  Early Drafts & the Techniques of Revision"

• Tim O'Brien's "The Magic Show"

• Sherman Alexie's "What You Pawn I Will Redeem"

• Alice Munro's "Cortez Island"

• An Interview with Alice Munro

• Richard Ford's "Great Falls"

• An Interview with Richard Ford

• Tobias Wolff's "Firelight"

• An Interview with Tobias Wolff

Handouts (on website)

Story Guidelines

The Peer Response -- Plot & Conflict

The Peer Response -- Character

Notes on Time Management

The Preface--Quotes and Questions

Publishing Your Work 

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