ENGL 301-01, Advanced Fiction Writing, Fall 1998

Abstract

Everyone will write and revise four (4) complete short stories during the course of this semester. 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.) 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.