Experiments in Fiction
In the workshop Experiments in Fiction, we spend time writing from various prompts, often from Ursula Le Guin's great book Steering the Craft. In one of the last sessions we explored using patterns and repetition in fiction and how a pattern can be a useful structure and guide to follow. As Raquel, our facilitator, put it on the day, life is full of repetition—let's put it to good fictional use. We then looked at a contemporary short story, Cafe Loup by Ben Lerner, and used it as inspiration for their own writing.
“I love hearing how everyone interprets the prompts differently and also finding fresh ways to think about writing from the sentence level to pieces as a whole. ”
From the Facilitator
Everyone wrote really interesting and fresh pieces in the class. Very inspiring and fun! I think everyone came away with new ideas to incorporate as well as the chance to read some new published fiction.
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