Invention

This course is about getting your writing going and keeping it going, and helping you write in an authentic true-life way. During the first half of the semester, you will be given weekly exercises designed to spark your imagination and help you access memories. The second half of the semester is devoted to developing and sharpening ideas introduced during the first half. At the mid-semester point you will submit a proposal to the instructor in which you contract to develop some element or elements (scenes, settings, characters, story lines, and so on) based on one or more of your earlier exercises.