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Attic Institute: FALL Online: Telling Stories: How to Write Fiction Workshop w Wayne Gregory

Online N/A, Portland

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.” — Gabriel García Márquez As soon as humans could speak, they gathered around the fire to tell stories. We’ve been doing it ever since.  We love to tell stories and to hear them because they have the power to change us. But how to take that story in your head and craft it into a fictional form that will grab and hold your readers? This class will show you!  You will learn about some of the basic elements of fiction (plot, character development, point of view, narration/scene) and you will gain strategies to bring all these elements together into well-crafted writing. Whether you are interested in…

$215 – $242