HNAR-306: Beginnings, Middles, & Ends

Where exactly should a story begin? Does the last and final scene seem inevitable? What belongs in the middle? Every fiction writer has questions like these at one time or another. In this creative writing workshop you'll look for answers by exploring short stories by contemporary writers and by workshopping your own pieces. We'll look at various avenues, including some nonfiction, for what's needed to establish a solid foundation for a story. By the end of the course you should have a much better understanding of how basic points of structure in a story change how we receive a piece of writing. Students should have experience writing short stories.