CREATIVE WRITING: FICTION

Catalog description

In this course, students learn to engage the creative process that enables them to write short stories and novels. Students, both experienced and inexperienced, will study the dramatic structures of scenes and stories, learn to develop and refine a plot, to evoke imaginative experience through description and dialogue, and to develop rich and compelling characters. In addition, the course introduces students to varied careers in the modern literary marketplace, showing them how writers can earn livings and avoid becoming “starving artists.” Students will compile a portfolio, share their writing, and engage in workshops and peer-review. By the end of the course, students will produce a body of work that can be the basis for further development. May repeat for credit. Cross-listed with LITR 321