Studio+Week

STUDIO WEEK
This week is going to be devoted to intensive studio work on the rough drafts. The idea is to refine and transform them into final, polished, professional works. On Tuesday the focus will be global - looking at the "big picture," the major narrative elements crucial to success - opening, situation, setting, plot, character(s), narrative voice, POV, and ending.

Here are the studio groups for

I will meet one-on-one with the following students to discuss their manuscripts (in this order and at the time indicated, please):

On Thursday, the focus will be narrow-gauge - looking at the works paragraph by paragraph focusing on word and sentence issues. Here, the mantra will be - brevity, clarity, authenticity. The questions will be: do the words bare the meaning you wish and no other? If not, choose words that do a better job. Do the sentences do their job in moving the plot, developing the character, mimicking speech, rendering description, etc. that they should do? If not, how can they be re-drafted

Here are the Studio Groups for

I will meet one on one with the following students to discuss their manuscripts (in this order and at the time indicated, please):

Final drafts will be due Dec. 6.