Tonight was the fourth and final class of my second go in Gish’s “Writing Short Stories” course, and it was most enjoyable because each classmate got to take some time to both talk about why they wrote the story they ended up writing for class, and sharing portions from those stories. And there were...
Read more →After the whirlwind Wisconsin trip this weekend, I enjoyed going to the third class of Gish’s Short Story writing workshop. The more time I spend around him in that class, the more I realize how little I know about so many aspects of writing, and particularly in its technical dimensions. Gish is great at...
Read more →I went to the fourth week of Marc Calderwood’s Basic Screenwriting class last night, and again, for the fourth week, I really enjoyed it. It’s not a heavy, dogmatic class, and it is also not a light collection of film reviews. Marc makes it a balance of focused instruction time, topical discussions, light exercises,...
Read more →Tonight was the last class in Dr. Gish’s four week course, “Writing Short Stories”, and I was the worst prepared for a class I have been in a long time. Luckily, it was not a course of great academic consequence- I was supposed to show up and learn, for myself. Still, I didn’t read...
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