Fiction - Fabricating Fiction
In this workshop we’ll explore, and learn to employ more effectively, four of fiction’s most powerful (and often underestimated) devices: Dialogue, Narrative Voice, the Carrying Metaphor, and the Telling Detail.
We’ll also cover, as needed, the rest of the toolkit: beginnings & endings, character definition, story arc/plot development, perspective, time frame and point of view.
Everyone will get at least two opportunities to have their writing workshopped by the group – more if we can manage it. There will be one-on-one sessions with the instructor to address each writer’s more individual needs. Roughly halfway along, one full day will be set aside to give everyone some more sustained writing time. Toward the end we’ll cover some of the nuts & bolts of marketing fiction. And if we get the time, why not stretch a little and examine some hybrids: docu-fiction, the nonfiction story, the micro-novel, graphic fiction. Flash-fiction, anyone? There’s only one rule: if it works, it’s legit.
Course Preparation:
Participants should submit, on or before June 17, a short story or an excerpt of a novel that they wish to work on during this session. These excerpts will be distributed to the instructor and to all participants and will be workshopped during the course. Additional, one-on-one feedback will also be provided by the instructor. Submission details will be available in your registration package.
Course Cost: *
$875
* includes admission to all Conference events, readings and panel discussions
