Fiction Writing Jumpstart

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Prerequisites: ENGL 1100 or equivalent. This course provides exercises, discussions, models, and practice for discovering short stories and the many ways to tell them. Students will read published short stories to learn how other writers have worked with point of view, distance, voice, plot, dialogue, setting, and characterization. Students will also write exercises and stories for workshop critique. Students who have taken ENGL 2060 may not take ENGL 2040 for credit. This course fulfills the English core requirement for the Creative Writing area and counts toward the Certificate in Writing.