Writer and journalist Joan Didion said, "I don't know what I think until I write it down." This class focuses on helping students mine their life experiences for writing. Through in-class and take-home exercises, students will explore various events in their lives and learn how to craft colorful, meaningful and universally appealing true stories. We discuss fictional writing techniques as they apply to nonfiction, with the goal of making our creative nonfiction as vivid as possible. We will also read several short pieces of memoir and discuss submitting pieces for publication.
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