This course provides an excellent opportunity for strong writers to enhance their own abilities while helping others develop the same skills. Intermediate A course on the writing of fiction, including such elements as story construction, narrative point of view, character, voice, and dialogue. Students will apply these elements both in exercises and in drafts of their own stories. Aside from some lecture and discussion, the course employs principally a workshop format. Intermediate Follows Techniques of Poetry in the creative writing sequence and is intended for those students interested in pursuing the art of poetry writing.
Emphasis is placed on writing skills.
Open to all students. Advanced Creative Writing A workshop for writers at an advanced level. The course is interdisciplinary in scope. Writers participating will be working in a variety of genres. Any given class may include novelists, short story writers, poets, playwrights, screenwriters, and writers in creative nonfiction.