Workshop in Fiction Writing

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the creative process and to help them develop their skills in writing short fiction. The class will function as a writing workshop, in which students will prepare assigned fiction-writing exercises; read and discuss assigned short stories and chapters on the craft of fiction writing; discuss and critique each other’s short fiction drafts; be guided in different strategies for editing and revising fiction; and become familiar with different styles of fiction.