Part of William Joiner Center's Writers' Workshop at UMASS Boston
(six morning two and a half hour class sessions spread over the two weeks, individual conferences with students, panel discussions, readings)
Course: "Fiction Workshop - Building Full, Real Characters"
To reach readers in fiction, it is important to develop believable, three-dimensional characters. How do you create complex, real people within the context of plot, dialogue, viewpoint, voice? This is the question we will try to answer. The class sessions will be mainly devoted to students’ own work-- short stories, chapters of novels, novellas-- which we will read and comment on (please some pages of your work, double-spaced, no longer than fifteen pages, to the first class). I will also give class exercises, if time permits. In the first session we will devote some time to a general discussion of the craft of writing fiction and also cover some publishing aspects of writing-- how to go about getting an agent, writing a cover letter, what to expect from the publishing world today. The criticism will be constructive. We will point out strengths as well as weaknesses and make suggestions for improvement.
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