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Sifting and Sorting: Developing Fiction from Family Anecdotes with Diane Gonzales Bertrand
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Who hasn’t listened to a family anecdote and thought, Wouldn’t that make a great short story or a novel? But how does the transformation begin? How do you shake the anecdote loose from its form? How do you shift from “telling” into writing? What practical tasks build confidence in your ideas as they develop?
In this class, you’ll explore a family anecdote of your own with a fiction writer’s imagination. You’ll learn how to pursue essential details; add character, setting, sequence and thematic elements; and amplify color, action, and motive as the characters move through the world you build.
