IMF 51612 Fiction: Gardner’s The Art of Fiction L

Instructor

Kali VanBaale

Class Type

Literature & Craft

Course Description

This course is built around the classic craft book The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Garner and is considered essential reading for any fiction writer. We’ll use this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that Gardner gave during his long teaching career, to explore the principles and techniques of good writing, and how it might apply to your own short story and novel writing. Gardner’s lessons, exemplified with detailed excerpts from classic works of literature, sweep across a complete range of topics—from the nature of aesthetics to the shape of a refined sentence. With targeted writing exercises and assignments to compliment the craft lessons in the book.