MHU 204 Creative Writing
While your fiction is the focus of this class, you will be required to read extensively, keep a journal, and give written comments to your fellow students. As well as a few short writing assignments, the Instructor will expect you to submit four short stories to the workshop. While there are no strict deadlines for the submission of these stories, you need to roughly stick to one story every four weeks. Some of you may be wondering exactly what a short story is and how long your stories should be. Joyce Carol Oates provides wise guidance: "My personal definition of the form is that it represents a concentration of imagination, and not an expression; it is no more than 10,000 words; and, no matter its mysteries or experimental properties, it achieves closure-meaning that, when it ends, the attentive reader understands why."