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Josh Emmons Advanced Novel Workshop Polishing Your Prose: Read and Write Like a Master
Advanced Novel Workshop After working on your novel for six months or a year or—say it proudly—ten years, you’re finally ready to show it to other people. This bold step requires a great deal of personal bravery and artistic fortitude, so take a moment to congratulate yourself (listen to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” if possible) and then commit to the inevitable, necessary work of revision. In this advanced workshop, we will spend most of our class time discussing a section of writing that you put before the group. Come prepared to give and receive valuable feedback on your and others’ manuscripts, with the goal of helping each toward artistic and professional success. Along the way, we’ll look at aspects of craft as they pertain to the novel in general and to yours in particular, from characterization to voice to pacing to plot to language and dialogue. By the end of the week, you’ll have a clear sense of how to transform your rough draft into a triumphant, publishable manuscript. Polishing Your Prose: Read and Write Like a Master What makes for an interesting, believable protagonist? How do you know when to start and stop a short story at its essential moments? Are there guidelines for choosing whether to put action in scene or exposition? Although hard and fast rules for writing fiction don’t exist—art isn’t algebra, after all, thank goodness—it can be very easy to make mistakes when doing it. In this weekend, we’ll closely examine several short stories in order to determine why the authors made the choices they did, and what effect these choices have on us as readers. We’ll focus on the connections between reading well and writing well, and on how others’ narrative strategies can inform our own. By the end of our time together, we’ll be in a better position to produce the next great American short story. Biography
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