Come take a class at The Piper Writers Studio!
There are some great sounding classes happening this fall, and some of them are online classes, so you don't even need to be in Tempe!
If you're in town and would like to take an eight-week fiction course, I highly reccommend Liz Weld's class, "What a Character!" Liz is in my writing group, and she's brilliant.
I'm teaching a one-day class as well:
Saturday, November 13, 10 AM - 3 PM (Lunch included)
Piper Writers House, ASU Tempe Campus
Cost: $100 / $90 for Piper Friends
FICTION
"The Truest Eye"
Instructor: Bill Konigsberg
Course Description: In her famous essay "The Site of Memory," Toni Morrison writes of her fiction: "I consider that my gravest responsibility . . . is not to lie. When I hear some say, 'Truth is stranger than fiction', I think that old chestnut is truer than we know, because it doesn't say truth is truer than fiction; just that it's stranger, meaning that it's odd. It may be excessive, it may be more interesting, but the important thing is that it's random -- and fiction is not random." In this one-day workshop, we'll explore the difference between fact and truth in fiction, and find ways to create truth with the use of singular details. We'll engage in exercises that will help you mine your past for the details that will make your fiction riveting and true. Students will be asked to read a four-page excerpt from Toni Morrison's "The Site of Memory" prior to class.
Come join us! I'm already looking forward to an interesting, thought-provoking and hopefully inspiring day.
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