Creative Writing II Schedule

Hybrid Course, Spring 2013

Following each date below are reading or other assignments due for that day. Also following each date are tentative activities and topics for the class period. If you miss a meeting, you should 1) get full notes and updates from several classmates; and 2) check with me again you have specific, informed questions. Because this schedule is flexible and subject to change, and because it's a workshop course, it's vital that you attend regularly and keep up with current announcements. Be sure as well to check your email and this online schedule regularly for changes and updates.

Jan. 8/10 —

• Introduction to course.
• Brief intro to fiction project.

Jan. 15/17 —

Before Class

• Read our Course Info page.
• Read Carver's, "Cathedral."
• Complete your weekly cyber work. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.

In Class

• PLEASE BRING A LAPTOP IF YOU HAVE ONE.
• Share faves from Skittish Libations. Perspectives wheel.
• Discuss Fiction Project.
• Work with Carver. Discuss Style to get a sense of how different writer prose styles can be.

Before Class

• Read about Workshop.
• Read Oates' "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been."
• Read flash fiction samples (pay attention especially to those with an * by their name).
• Check your email and/or our Blackboard Pub for anything your classmates may have submitted for discussion this week. (Be sure to read that material carefully before class.) And feel free to submit something yourself!!!!!! You should do these things each week.
• Complete your weekly cyber work. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.

In Class

• BRING A DOLLAR BILL TO CLASS.
• Finish discussion of Carver: style and character-driven stories. Examine final scene. "Art is thinking in images."—Aleksander Potebnya .
• Flash fiction: look at samples. What makes a story a story? What makes a story something that anyone wants to read?
• Elements of fiction: style, character, plot.

Before Class

• Revise your flash fiction from previous week. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.
• Write!

In Class

• Workshop.
• Discuss O'Brien. Remember to bring a copy of his story either as a hardcopy print-out or document on your laptop screen.

March 5/7 —

Before Class

• Read: Poetry and Form and all links.
• Read short-short poems online: Click here.
• Complete your weekly cyber work. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.

In Class

• Review the e-publishing event.
• Verbal music: sound, rhythm, meter, traditional forms. Discuss Poetry Project #2.
• The short-short poem and Poetry on Wheels.

March 12/14 —SPRING BREAK

March 19/21—

Before Class

• Complete your weekly cyber work. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.

In Class

• Semester review.
• Discuss chapbook assignment and samples.
• Begin discussion of Poetry Project 3: Spoken word poetry and the oral tradition. Audio recordings.

March 26/28 —

Before Class

• Look around Writer's Link.
• Thoroughly explore the Electronic Poetry Center and UBUWeb.
• Complete your weekly cyber work. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.

In Class

• Responses to Writer's Link: career options, further education, publication.
• Continue work with Poetry Project #3: Concrete/new media poetry and the visual tradition.
• Performances sign-up.

Before Class

• Complete your weekly cyber work. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.

In Class

Before Class

• Work on performance, chapbook.
• Complete your weekly cyber work. Remember that instructions for these assignments are posted in Bb, and that you will also post your completed work there.

In Class

• Discuss and work on chapbooks.

April 16/18 —

Before Class

• Work on performance, chapbook.

In Class

• Portfolio checklist.
• Intensive workshopping/conferencing.

April 23/25 —

Before Class

• Work on performance, chapbook.

In Class

• Performances.
• Intensive workshopping/conferencing.

April 30/May 2 —

Before Class

• Work on performance, chapbook.

In Class

• Performances.
• Wrap-up workshopping/conferencing.
• Course evaluation.

May 9 —All final work is due no later than midnight. Exceptions are made only with documented evidence of serious hardship or illness.

You need to hand in your chapbook with

1. manilla envelope (no name on front);
2. reflective letter.