CRWR 10206 Section 1/30206 Section 1 Beginning Fiction Workshop: Understanding Narrative Point of View
Writers at all levels learn through the careful reading of works they admire. While this is a workshop class, we will spend about a third of our time reading stories worth learning from, both classic and contemporary, with a focus on the choices that writers make, the nuts and bolts of craft, with special emphasis on point of view (who speaks and why?) while also covering tone, direct and summary dialog, setting, conflict, causality, and use of time. In-class exercises will further hone your understanding of specific techniques, fire your creativity and get you writing. We will then move to writing workshop, where you will have the opportunity to present your work to the group. Critique will be respectful and productive, with emphasis on clarity and precision. By the end of the course, you will have generated significant raw material and completed at least one story, which will be revised and handed in as a final portfolio.
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