ENGL 401, Advanced Fiction Workshop, Spring 2014

Abstract

This course builds on and the content of the Intermediate Fiction Writing Workshop. By now you are entirely comfortable with the use of elements and concepts of fiction such as Showing and Telling; Characterization; Place; Time; Form, Theme, Dramatic Tension, Plot & Structure as well as Point of View. The aims of this class are to ensure that you write and rewrite two Short Stories that display integrated knowledge of the aforementioned elements of fiction. The greater part of our time will be spent reading published short fiction and 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 short stories that are as close to complete as you are, at this point, able to achieve.