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Song
Write songs in a setting where words come naturally,
collaboration inspires you, and music becomes possible.
Concentrate on music or lyrics, or create both. Discover the
kinship between poetry and song. Produce and arrange pieces
for performance and multi-track recording. Collaborate to
create group performances.
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Fiction
Learn techniques of effective storytelling. Invent
provocative narrative hooks. Select the right details to
create masterful plots in which complex characters weave
their way through intriguing situations. Develop a
repertoire of voices, styles and strategies that will
electrify readers.
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Poetry
Start from within and use the power of words to reveal
the poet's vision. Learn how sounds, stories, images and
forms can come to embody whole worlds of experience in a
breath. When we distill the truth of what we know as human
beings in the world, we uncover truth's essence -- the
poem.
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Magazine Journalism
Master the devices of great fiction; vivid description,
accurate dialogue, thought-provoking character development,
and strong narrative structure -- by telling true stories in
this magazine journalism workshop. Memoir, personality
profile, feature, editorial, humor, and review are among
your options. Learn by reading and writing both short
in-class exercises and longer outside field work that will
take your skills to new heights.
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Playwriting
Act as scriptwriter, producer, director,
performer, and viewer; discover how each informs the
scripting process. Invent dramatic situations, sharpen them
with dialogue, translate them into stage action or
screenplays; then experience what the fiction writer can
only imagine -- the immediate response of a live
audience!
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