IMF 51665 Fiction: Ways of Looking at the Novel W

Instructor

Joe Baumann

Class Type 

Workshop

Course Description

This workshop takes as its core guide Jane Smiley’s monumental Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel as an entry point into drafting (or redrafting) a significant chunk of a novel project.  Through reflective assignments, generative writing exercises, and a handful of workshops, students will be able to articulate the trajectory of their work and leave the course with significant forward momentum for a work in progress.

Textbook

Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel, Jane Smiley