![]() ![]() If you can just get your reader to buy into that, they'll accept anything else. What I'm pushing for, it's for your fiction to have that same feel that nonfiction has: that this isn't a lie. And always how to condense it further, how to pare and pare until just that beating heart is left on the page. not so much generate a vocabulary by which to talk about fiction - you've already got that - but a chance for us to know where everybody's coming from, storywise. The first week we'll read and discuss, try to. ![]() This time I've built the rabbit holes in, I think. ![]() So, now, yep: "Your Life Story is Five Pages Long." Or, more to our purposes: four weeks long. My only regret was that we couldn't run down all the rabbit holes that kept showing up along the way. However, I got lucky, came up with an exercise or three that ended up working, and that class, man, they produced such excellent stories. ![]() "Last summer I taught a one-week MFA workshop, a hired-gun thing, three or four hours for five days, and, at the last moment before the catalogue printed, I came up with a title for it: "Your Life Story is Two Pages Long." Just because I thought it sounded cool - not because I had any idea what to do with a title like that. ![]()
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