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Berkeley Global
Continue to explore the craft of writing fiction, focusing on the short story. Examine the form’s intricacies of plotting, narrative voice and personal style. Class sessions include instructor-led critiques of your work and focus on improving your ability to edit and revise your stories. Enrollment is limited to 18.
Course Outline
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Course Objectives
- Identify the elements necessary to make a wide range of short stories successful.
- Convey through diagrams and explanations what makes a particular story successful.
- Use what you have learned—including the complex and unconventional choices authors make about plot, setting, point of view, etc.—in your own rough drafts.
- Learn to give and receive good feedback based on the craft elements you have learned, a skill essential to taking your writing to the next level.
What You Learn
- The shape of fiction
- Dialogue
- Pacing
- Shapes and patterns
- The pitch
- Storytelling
- Character, climax and the moral center
- Point of view
- Story diagram
- Revision
- Manuscripts and feedback
How You Learn
- Lectures/modules
- Reading assignments
- Videos
- Writing assignments
- Discussion participation
- Writers’ workshop
- Final manuscript
Is This Course for Me?
This course is a natural next step in honing your writing skills, if you have already completed Introduction to Writing Fiction ENGLISH X464 or the equivalent. Lectures and in-class exercises focus on the short story; however, if you are primarily interested in working on a novel, you can still benefit greatly.
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Spring enrollment opens on October 16!