Every Wednesday we took time out of class to work on short writing assignments, which were then revised and submitted each week. This is one of those assignments that turned into one of my very favorite pieces I have written. Through this piece, I learned the importance of journaling and I began to better understand writing as a process.
Creative Writing: Fiction
ENGL 2013
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Professor Vincent Carafano
This course explores the thrilling possibilities of fiction by examining (relatively) contemporary novellas that press on, expand, and sometimes shatter perceived limitations of genre and craft. Our classroom conversations will take up the reworking of myth, the embrace of contradiction, the swelling miscellany of hybrid texts, and the ontological instability of worlds in Anne Carson’s The Autobiography of Red, Clarice Lispector’s The Hour of the Star, Eric Chevillard’s Palafox, Juan Rulfo’s Pedro Paramo, Stanley Crawford’sLog of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine, and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’sDictee. Along the way, we will engage stratagems of writing craft—including studies of Point of View, Plot & Tension, Worldbuilding, and Structure—through a consideration of Lance Olsen’s craft text. Architectures of Possibility. Student commitments include in-class writing exercises, reading responses, critical discussion, workshop, and a final Creative Portfolio.