523 Creative Nonfiction Spring 2006
The Revision Workshop
Syllabus and Course Description
Essays On E-reserve at Zimmerman Library
Required:
- "The Eleventh Draft" Chris Offutt
- An Interview with Jane Smiley
- Jane Smiley's "What Stories Teach Their Writers
- Susan Sontag's "Directions: Write, Read, Rewrite. Repeat Steps 2 and 3 as Needed"
- Stephen Koch's "Working & Reworking: Early Drafts & the Techniques of Revision" (excerpt from THE MODERN LIBRARY'S WRITER'S WORKSHOP)
- Melody Gee's 3 Drafts of "Back Home" published in North Dakota Quarterly*
- Molly Cooney's 3 Drafts of "Missing Pieces" published in The Gettysburg Review*
- Rachel Pratt's 3 Drafts of "Broken Waters" published in Creative Nonfiction*
- Paul Bogard's 2 drafts of "Crash" published in River Teeth
*essay draft workshopped in English 523
Suggested Reading:
- Patricia Hampl's "Memory & Imagination"
- Vivian Gornick's "The Situation & the Story"
- Philip Lopate's "Writing Personal Essays: On the Necessity of Turning Oneself into a Character"
To access use the following path:
- http://ereserves.unm.edu/courseindex.asp
- enter 523
- enter password: study523 (password is all one word)
- Note on downloading adobe (pdf) files
Handouts (on website)
Craft Features: Quotes, Ideas, Questions, Working Definitions
Workshops (pdf)