This is a traditional fiction-writing workshop in which we will be exploring the art of the novel, specifically how to start one and build the momentum that is necessary for sustaining a longer work.  We’ll be exploring character, point of view, tense, the idea of chapters, and plot as we feel our way toward grasping the novel’s possibilities and expanse, the many different ways there are to approach the form.  Additionally, there will be assigned readings from various novels that we will explore in order to both learn to read like writers and to understand how others begin the long-form in fiction.  Among the authors, we will read are Jane Austen, Toni Morrison, Tommy Orange, Virginia Woolf, Tim O’Brien, Emile Zola, and others.

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