Kashyap, Aruni
MTWRF 9:30 AM
Park Hall 0136
This is a fun and exciting class for beginning writers. If you love to dabble in stories and essays and want some extra help to see if you would like to take writing seriously, this course is for you. This course is also people who are not in English or are not enrolled in a humanities class. Engineers, medical students, business and finance majors : all are welcome for this course meant for anyone who wants to learn how to write short stories and personal essays!
In this course, you will experiment with two creative genres—fiction and creative nonfiction—to develop different imaginative approaches to personal experience. The emphasis will be on generating a lot of raw material and advancing a chunk of this work toward completion.
During the semester, we will read love stories, mystery stories, suspense stories, literary fiction, travel essays, moving personal essays, gripping crime reports, watch popular movies, to learn the art of storytelling, and implement those in our own stories and essays. We will read various works from all over the world and use them as inspiration to create our own.
In short, this course will teach you the basic techniques of writing, how to apply those in your own writing, and how to look at literature from the practitioner's point of view. At the end, we will have workshops to help you find a structured community of writers who will help you grow.