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You
want to write that stop-them-in-their-tracks short story? Let me
tell you a secret. It's not the content that counts. It's HOW
YOU TELL IT. By starting from the ground up, you will learn
to tell a great story; a story that engages your reader sentence
by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, page by page so that, in the
end, they are changed by it.
YOU
WILL:
- Discover
how to transform resonant personal experience into powerful story.
- Develop
your skills in creating rich and exciting language.
- Practice
the principles central to the craft of writing fiction: character
development, voice, point of view, story line and final meaning.
- Take
risks with camera angle, linguistic texture, and story structure
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COURSE
SYLLABUS
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- WEEK
1: INTRODUCTION
What's
It All About?: Class Overview & Structure
Awakening Perception: The Vitality of the Heart
Remembering Incident
Potent Words, Shimmering Images
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2: LOCATING STORY
Seeing Story in the Familiar: Vignette to Story
Versions: Angles of Incidence
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3: TRANSLATING TRUTH INTO FICTION
Amazing Stories
Is It a True Story?: Drama that Happened and Drama You
Invent
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4: SHORT STORY AS GENRE
Seeing Story in the Unfamiliar
Whose Story Is It?: Narrative Points of View
About Short Story
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5: CHARACTER: INVENTING THE TRUTH
Biography: "Creative Wrong Memory" as a Source of Art
Character + Situation = Momentum
Sprouting Seeds: Developing Your Short Story
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6: FIRST PERSON: DEVELOPING CHARACTER OUT OF VOICE
Hearing Voices: Speaking in Tongues
Primary Colors of Story: Character, Obsession, Obstacle
Understanding Your Characters Through Monologue
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WEEK 7: THE PLOT THICKENS
Personal Secrets
Situation to Plot
Developing
Your Characters: Telling Details - Metaphor & Hard Facts
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WEEK 8: DIALOGUE
Loosening the Tongue: Writing a Scene in Dialogue Only
Revealing Dialogue: Dialogue as Art, Not Talk
Mainlining Your Story
Getting Unstuck: Traveling Outside the Story to Get In
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9: LAUGHTER AND LUST
Humor
Sex
Final Meaning
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WEEK 10: DOWN TO THE WIRE
Feedback/Critique
Evaluation
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WINTER SESSION
February 2 - March 29, 2012
9 Thursday Evenings
| Title: |
Ripe
Fruit III
Growing the Short Story |
| Fee: |
$395 |
| Deposit: |
$100 |
| Time |
7:00
- 10:00 PM |
| Location: |
Greenhouse
of the Imagination-San Francisco |
SPACE
IS LIMITED
CALL (415) 337-4369 OR
CLICK BELOW TO REGISTER
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