LHUM 335 - Creative Writing:Fiction

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Berklee College of Music

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Credits:3 credits Prerequisites:LCOR-112 Course Chair:C. Colatosti Required of:None Electable by:All Offered:Spring Description This workshop focuses on the craft of creating fiction, including narrative design from the traditional to the experimental, point of view, voice, tension and resolution, character construction, and dialogue. We will also discover how student and professional writers catch and sustain their readers' attention. As models for creative writing, we will choose a small number of works by such authors as Jhumpa Lahiri, Raymond Carver, Alice Munro, Tim O'Brien, Amy Tan, and Milan Kundera. Thinking as writers, not critics, we will read these stories as we read our own: with an eye and an ear tuned to the construction of imaginative stories people enjoy reading. However, the primary emphasis of this writers' workshop will be on shaping students' original short stories--or chapters from a novel. The sessions will be highly interactive, including peer editing and regular small-group work. We will also explore the possibility of students publishing their stories in small literary journals and eZines.

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3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Historical Version(s):

09/01/2007 - 09/01/2007 

Institution Website:

www.berklee.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 747-2222

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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