ENGL 301-01, Advanced Fiction Writing, Fall 2001

Abstract

Each of you will write and revise four (4) complete short stories during the course of this semester. You may write about whatever you wish. Each story submitted for discussion must consist of at least 6 double-spaced pages and should be “complete,” with a worked out ending—even a bad one. (Coming up with better endings is one of the things workshop is for.) I will not accept any story shorter than 6 double-spaced pages. If you are working on a novel or a novella, you can submit installments, yet these, too, must consist of self-contained units (i.e., “chapters” or “parts”). At the end of the semester, you will gather these revised stories into a portfolio, which you will submit to me for final evaluation. While there is no page limit on the total number of pages you write, there is a minimum requirement of 25 typewritten, double-spaced pages.