ENG 300 Intro to Creative Writing
In this course, we will read literary texts with an eye to learning about the forms in which we will write: the personal essay, the short story, and the poem. In addition to instructing us, the literature of others can also produce a generative friction that can fuel our own writing practice. When we sit down to write, we prove there is a difference between ourselves and other writers, and ourselves as we are now and ourselves as we were ten minutes ago. We remain attuned to the stream of consciousness, to that flux of constantly changing experience in which we are caught. In addition to reading and writing, a major part of this course will be workshopping each other's work.