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Fiction 143: Short Story Workshop - Free Form

• Average Time Commitment per Week: 3 to 4 hours per week
  
  
• Time to Complete Course: 6 weeks
  
  
• Difficulty (1-5): 3
  

• Course Description: Students will work on creating a free-style short story with paper and pen writing exercises to find the sources of stories from deep within. By the end of the course, the student will have completed a short story of approximately 2,500 words.
  
  
• Required Online Readings:
  
  • Writers' Village University Workshop Guidelines
  • Show or Tell: Which is Better?
  
  
• Optional Online Reading:
  
  • Character Profile Worksheet
  
  
  
  • Lesson 1: Free Writing
  • Lesson 2: The First Rough Draft - 3500 - 5000 words
  • Lesson 3: Discovering Hidden Theme and Structure
  • Lesson 4: Critique Week
  • Lesson 5: Revising the Story - 2500 - 3000 words
  • Lesson 6: Final Stories Reviewed
    
    
• Classroom A
• Classroom B
• Classroom C
• Receive lessons by email

Course developed by: Bob Hembree

Facilitated by: Journey and Peer Group