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The Girl You’ll Never Forget
Fiction Workshop with Meera Nair
Tuesdays, April 27-June 1, 2010, 7-8:30 PM (6 Sessions)
Good fiction teems with characters you can believe in. They are complicated, emotional, often flawed—in fact as hopelessly human as the rest of us! We get to know them by watching them walk and talk, love and think; make choices and play out their deepest desires on the page.
They mostly do this in scene---that super important building block of fiction.
In this six-week workshop we will use fun exercises to give birth to memorable characters (male, female and in-between) and get to know them intimately---their wants and fears, joys and hopes; their histories, their futures and how they actually live day to day.
We will then set them in motion by placing them in scenes where something happens. We will use exercises to invent scenes that are .turning points, push the story forward, and reveal character. We will learn how to balance action with thought, how to increase tension, how to surprise the reader.
Through class readings, exercises and shared work, you will (hopefully!) leave the class with a sharper sense of narrative craft and enough material for a bang-up piece of fiction.
Suitable for all levels.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32 Street, Suite 10A
btw Broadway and Fifth Avenue
Learn to write chills-down-your-spine fiction at the bargain price of two shots of Patron per class!
Meera Nair’s debut collection Video (Pantheon) won the Asian-American Literary Award and was chosen a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in the New York Times magazine, on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts among other places, and has been anthologized in Delhi Noir, Charlie Chan is Dead-2 and Money Changes Everything. She is a recipient of fellowships from NYFA and from the MacDowell Colony. Meera is a graduate of NYU’s creative writing program and teaches fiction writing in the MFA program@Brooklyn College and NYU. Pantheon will publish her novel “Harvest” next year.
The Girl You’ll Never Forget
Fiction Workshop with Meera Nair
Tuesdays, April 27-June 1, 2010, 7-8:30 PM (6 Sessions)
Good fiction teems with characters you can believe in. They are complicated, emotional, often flawed—in fact as hopelessly human as the rest of us! We get to know them by watching them walk and talk, love and think; make choices and play out their deepest desires on the page.
They mostly do this in scene---that super important building block of fiction.
In this six-week workshop we will use fun exercises to give birth to memorable characters (male, female and in-between) and get to know them intimately---their wants and fears, joys and hopes; their histories, their futures and how they actually live day to day.
We will then set them in motion by placing them in scenes where something happens. We will use exercises to invent scenes that are .turning points, push the story forward, and reveal character. We will learn how to balance action with thought, how to increase tension, how to surprise the reader.
Through class readings, exercises and shared work, you will (hopefully!) leave the class with a sharper sense of narrative craft and enough material for a bang-up piece of fiction.
Suitable for all levels.
@ The Workshop
16 West 32 Street, Suite 10A
btw Broadway and Fifth Avenue
Learn to write chills-down-your-spine fiction at the bargain price of two shots of Patron per class!
Meera Nair’s debut collection Video (Pantheon) won the Asian-American Literary Award and was chosen a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post. Her work has appeared in the New York Times magazine, on National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts among other places, and has been anthologized in Delhi Noir, Charlie Chan is Dead-2 and Money Changes Everything. She is a recipient of fellowships from NYFA and from the MacDowell Colony. Meera is a graduate of NYU’s creative writing program and teaches fiction writing in the MFA program@Brooklyn College and NYU. Pantheon will publish her novel “Harvest” next year.
