Foundations in Creative Writng

Catalog description

This course could be called "Great Attention to detail in Poetry, Fiction, and Drama." In it, students explore the many aspects of writing, focusing attention on particular tasks, and discovering answers to questions such as: How do we build our work from notes to drafts to completed pieces of work? How do we write believable characters? How do we bring the language of color, climate, or the intimacies of mood to our work? What images, objects or symbols help support the ideas of our writing? How do we find the source in ourselves from which to write poetry? How do we know when a piece of work is finished? Copies of the readings will be provided by the instructor.