The Writer's Workshop 
$500
From Harry Potter to Shakespeare to The Da Vinci Code, creative writing is one of the most satisfying and timeless art forms, teaching us universal truths about ourselves and our relationship to the world.
Description
From Harry Potter to Shakespeare to The Da Vinci Code, creative writing is one of the most satisfying and timeless art forms, teaching us universal truths about ourselves and our relationship to the world.
In this course, you’ll learn the building blocks of fiction and poetry. We’ll cover the component parts of poetry by studying and writing sonnets and then delve into fiction with readings and exercises to help you establish character, setting, and structure, culminating in a 1,000-word story.
All in all, there are six assignments. By the end of the course you will possess the basics needed to create work that excites, moves, and transports readers.
Text: Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, by Janet Burroway.
- Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
- My Antonia by Willa Cather
- Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
- I Heard the Owl Call my Name by Margaret Craven
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
- Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Hobbit by J.R. Tolkien
- Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
