CRW3110 - Fall 2025 - Wonder

Fiction Technique offers a supportive space to develop and experiment with your voice, your style, and the stories you want to tell. The goal is to give you the tools and the vocabulary to write, such as plot structure, character development, writing conflict, etc. We will focus on exploration and discovery of what themes are important to you as an artist, generating work that reflects your unique sense of experience, and developing skills for critiquing your peers’ work.

The most important aspect of writing is reading well and learning to read like a writer. Thus, this class will also ask you to read and engage with a variety of published stories and peer work, asking what are the aims of the story? And what are the elements of craft that helped the story achieve those aims? We will look at different authors’ strengths and omissions in their craft and learn how to begin reading to develop your own strengths as a writer.