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FictionThe Shape of the Voice: Narrative Structure in FictionW10-F01
Outlining for Pantsers and PlottersW10-F02
Novel in a YearW10-F03
Mystery Workshop: Writing Killer FictionW10-F05
Advanced FictionW10-F06
The Fiction of Nature: Creating Stories Through the Natural WorldW10-F07
Writing the Truth in FictionW10-F08
Beginning Story WritingW10-F09
Short Short Fiction: or, How to Write War and Peace in Three Paragraphs.W10-F10
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The Book ThievesHosted by Writers & Books Younger Staff Members Book Kick-off, A Divided Poet: Robert Frost, North of Boston, and the Drama of Disappearance, by David Sanders.Thursday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m. First Fridays / Wide Open MicHosted by Norm Davis Beyond Reading: Blood DriveSaturday February 4, 9 a.m. -1 p.m. Beyond Reading: FilmMonday, February 6, 7 p.m. “How Do I Love Thee?” Romantic Love Poems Through the AgesTuesday, February 7, 7 p.m. Afternoon TeaWed., Feb. 8, 4:30 - 6 p.m. The Bertrand Russell SocietyHosted by Phil Ebersol
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This course is designed to help writers take their basic story premise and develop it into an exciting read. The class will cover the basics of creating a story premise, now to use the goals and motivations of character to create conflict on the page. We will map out students stories using Narrative Structure of Inciting Incident, Escalating conflict (main story turning points) the dark moment, the climactic scene and the resolution to ensure each story makes sense in the world of fiction.
Do you write your stories by the seat of your pants, or do you map your way well ahead of time? Either way, learning to use various types of outline to keep you on track or to keep track of where you’ve been will help you to develop incredible stories. Outlining isn’t necessarily plotting every aspect of your story, but by using various techniques for character development and plot development, I will show writers how to ensure they never get lost while writing again.
Are you writing a novel, or thinking of starting one? Maybe you’ve started one before but the task seemed to daunting. This class will cover everything from brainstorming, outlining, basic novel structure, ensuring conflict, plot and sub-plot development, character development and arc, creating realistic dialogue, using setting, revision and editing and giving your manuscript the color it needs to stand out. Plus, this class, the peer energy and helpful atmosphere will keep your project on track and prevent you from hanging it up when the going gets tough.
Who says crime doesn’t pay? With so many types of mysteries to choose from—police procedurals, cozies, hard-boiled, amateur detectives, classic who-done-its, historicals, capers, comic crime—you’ve got every chance to prove the experts wrong. This four-week writing workshop will explore the key elements of this exciting and always popular genre, from creating believable characters, realistic dialog and compelling settings, to mapping out your mystery, playing fair with the reader, building suspense and getting the technical details right. Plus, you’ll get an honest “insider’s look” at the business end of the process, as well as tips on what today’s publishers are really looking for. Who knows, to a publisher, your manuscript might just be the stuff that dreams are made of.
This workshop is designed to help experienced writing students take their fiction to the next level. Character, plot, narration, dialogue, voice, theme, and everything else that goes into the best fiction will be discussed. Participants will have the opportunity to critique and be critiqued in a supportive atmosphere. Participants are expected to have some workshop experience or some practice at writing fiction.
Nature and the assault on the environmental is a hot-button topic today. And yet these issues have been around for centuries. Many writers have used nature as a backdrop to speak out about many controversial topics. If you find yourself writing your characters into a natural setting, having these characters contemplate nature and its issues, or just desiring to describe nature “just right,” this is the class for you. Or maybe you love reading essays where writers critique our human habits and you want to do that with your story’s plot. In our day at the Gell Center, we will read contemporary and classic nature writers, do writing exercises, and then begin to build a story centered in the expanse of the outdoors. We’ll even do a bit of walking along some of the center’s easier trails to garnish some inspiration and create a story motivated by this natural beauty. Please bring comfortable shoes.
Do you wonder where fiction stories come from, or how they are written? Do you have so many ideas and stories in your head, but do not know how to put them to paper? Or perhaps it’s the opposite, you love to write, but don’t know what to write or how to organize it. This class will give you building blocks for understanding the process of writing short stories, while showing you how to use what you already know—your life—to write them. Through reading and discussion, we will look at such fictional elements as character, plot, point of view, voice, dialogue, and setting. Writers we will read include: Eudora Welty, Amy Tan, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and many other strong and descriptive examples. Bring your pens and your ideas and let’s write!
You’ve always wanted to write fiction but have not known where to begin. This class will examine the basic principles and techniques of fiction that everyone new to fiction writing needs to know: Point-of-view, dialogue, plotting, and character development. Learn to dig into your own cache of memories and experiences for story material, train your ear for authentic dialogue, and learn the mechanics of creating a scene. 
Increasingly literary and general interest magazines are calling for short short fiction, also called micro, fast, quick, furious, skinny, or postcard fiction. This eight-week class will analyze successful models of short short fiction of less than 750 words, how they use traditional elements of story writing (plot, character development, conflict, etc.). The larger part of the class will be dedicated to discussing ways you can improve your manuscripts using sound story writing principles and practices to make your work highly publishable.