Breathing Story to Life March 5, 2008

Kurt Gutjahr
Often it is that one hard-working detail that breathes life into a character or scene–Lady McBeth’s unclean hands, the eye glasses worn by the Misfit in Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find, or Don Quixote’s windmills. Appropriate for prose writers of all levels, this class will address a variety of techniques for transcribing our characters’ emotional lives onto the story’s physical landscape. We’ll talk about rhythm in prose, when to use long sentences and when to use short ones, how to build lists, where to start a story, where to end it, and how to tighten dialogue so it expresses both action and character in a unique way. Our work will unlock your story’s potential, leading to what Flannery O’Conner called “the moment of discovery.”

March 5 – April 30 (Non-Credit)
Wednesdays • 6:30 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Non-credit: $256, $218 by February 13

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