2374 - Generating Stories I

Course Description

Generate ideas and unearth your fictional, mythical and true-life stories waiting to be told. This workshop-based 20-hour course will help you complete drafts and revisions to the fiction or non-fiction prose or poetry that you want to write. No need to have a manuscript in hand to start. Weekly exercises, along with assignments and in-class work will inspire you to write poems, memoirs and stories, and to work with these stories to revise into work that will reward your reader.

Learning Outcomes

• Identify and shape the stories you want to tell.
• Organize and revise your ideas into readable prose.
• Develop your skills of revision and active listening to find and amplify the parts of your writing that resonate with readers

This course may be applied towards the SCS Certificate(s) in

• Creative Writing : Elective Courses