Dates and Times for this Past Event
- Wednesday, Jun 21, 2023 6 pm-8 pm
- Wednesday, Jun 14, 2023 6 pm-8 pm
- Wednesday, Jun 7, 2023 6 pm-8 pm
- Wednesday, May 31, 2023 6 pm-8 pm
- Wednesday, May 24, 2023 6 pm-8 pm
- Wednesday, May 17, 2023 6 pm-8 pm
Location
Redbud Writing Project
719 N Person St
Details
In this class, we will use three craft books, Ursula K. LeGuin’s Steering the Craft, George Saunders’s A Swim in the Pond in the Rain and James Wood’s How Fiction Works, to practice and better understand specific elements of writing. Topics such as point of view, dialogue, causality, diction and profluence will be discussed, dissected and deployed. While we will be doing a fair bit of writing this will not be a workshop class—our writing will take the form of exercises and short scenes, not complete stories; the focus is on honing technique and understanding what makes for effective storytelling. All three books will be necessary for the class. In addition, while the focus will be fiction, memoirists can benefit just as fully from these strategies.