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FictionFlash Fiction: How to Write War and Peace in Three Paragraphs.W12-F01
Fiction: RewritingW12-F02
Advanced Fiction WritingW12-F03
What Happens when You Step on a Cow Pie: Creating Authentic Details and Texture in Your FictionW12-F04
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Flash fiction, alias micro-, skinny-, and postcard fiction, has increasingly taken hold in literary magazines. This class will analyze successful models of flash fiction and workshop your stories of less than 1000 words: our intent, to study how traditional storytelling tropes (plot, action, character, scene, dialogue, story arc, etc.) can be told elliptically in order to tell a big story in a small space. The larger part of the class will be dedicated to pointing out submission outlets and critiquing your stories to improve their publishability.
Sooner or later all fiction writers need to embrace the maxim that “All good writing is rewriting.” So here, finally, is a workshop on exactly that. In this class we will learn the top five problems that an editor will fix in a manuscript, what writers should be trying to accomplish in successive drafts. We’ll dive into our own manuscripts and rewrite, cut, and polish.
This is an intensive workshop in which students will read and critique each other’s work under the guidance of a teacher who is an accomplished story writer, novelist, and critic. Students will be expected to have some experience writing fiction. This is an excellent chance to improve aspects such as character development, plot, theme, dialogue, and style.
There is vast difference between ordinary description and what might be called “luminous details,” those that draw readers so deep into the story that they forget to eat lunch. This one-meeting seminar will look at some samples of rich (but spare) storytelling texture, color, and aroma and we’ll talk about how these scenes work. During the second half, we’ll get our fingers in the mud. Students should bring some work to revise in an interactive workshop.