Meetings with Tutors

Alex’s Group (meetings are at the juicebar)
Thursday, April 10
2:30-3:00 Tamara
3:00-3:30 Sean
3:30-4:00 Kyle
Friday, April 11
4:00-4:30 Eleanor
4:30-5:00 Alicia (is this ok?)
Katie’s Group
Reply to this post to claim your spot. Let me know if any of these times don’t work for you, and we can find another window that works for us both. Let’s meet in the Juice [...]

Exercise: Past & Present

From Tony:
100 Word Exercise
Think of a historical character and put him/her in a contemporary setting.
What would s/he think? How would s/he react?

100 Words Fiction Exercise: Story of a Word

This is Tony’s Prompt:
Look up the etymology of any word you like.  Write the story of that word.  100 words.

Listening to Fiction

I want everyone to know about the New Yorker Fiction Podcast, which allows you to listen to a great writer talk about one of his or her favorite short stories, and also has the author read the story aloud. Some of my favorites have been Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Gospel According to St. Mark,” T.C. [...]

Wu Ming and collaborative writing

Hey guys. Just a little bit of something interesting I wanted to share. Maddie and Sean and I (anyone else?) were at a lecture yesterday by Roberto Bui, a member of an Italian writers’ collective called Wu Ming. (The name alternatively means “anonymous” or “five writers,” depending on how you pronounce the first syllable.) He [...]

Fiction Exercise #1: 200-Word Sudden Fiction

Write a sudden fiction in exactly 200 words following these rules:
1.  A one-scene story that takes place on a dock.
2.  Characters:  a pilot and a runner, strangers to one another
3.  A second-person narrator
4.  Circumstance:  They’ve both lost something

For Fiction Writers

I have created a new menu item on the lefthand sidebar: “For Fiction Writers” with links to some helpful sites. Please add via comments! What are your favorite online fiction sites?
Also, I have listed all of your presentation dates up on the presentation tab.

Updates–Fiction Syllabus Online

You can now find UNIT THREE  in the menu above, including examples from your tutors terrific. Please make sure you read through the page and let me know if you have any questions.
Also, I have steadily been adding to our Places Readers Go list on the upper left sidebar. Please add more sites [...]