ENGL 301-01, Intermediate Fiction Writing, Fall 2011

Abstract

This course builds on and revisits material from the Introduction to Fiction Writing Workshop. By now you are comfortable with the use of elements and concepts of fiction such as Showing and Telling; Characterization; Place; Time; Form, Plot & Structure as well as Point of View. The aims of this class are to ensure that you write and rewrite short Short Stories (Sudden Fiction) as well as Short Stories that display integrated knowledge of the aforementioned elements of fiction. The greater part of our time will be spent writing and critiquing work by members of the workshop. In addition, the purpose of this course is to encourage you to begin living the life of a writer by cultivating attentiveness to the discipline of writing, to language, to literature, and to self and other. By the end of the class you will have produced two stories that are as close to complete as you are, at this point, able to achieve.