Creative Writing: Fiction
Fall 2004 (Updated 11/25/04)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2:30-3:52; O'Leary 309
Robert Love Taylor
Hours MWF 2:00-3:30 or by appointment
Office: Carnegie 201
email:rtaylor@bucknell.edu
All assignments must be single-spaced and sent to me
electronically
in Word format on the day they're due. Within three days after
receiving back an assignment, return it corrected
to
me (the hard copy with my comments on it); make corrections on the
original
where the mistakes have occurred; do not print out another version for
the recording of corrections. For a good review of punctuation, click
here.
Text: Mills, Crafting
the Very Short Story
Links to workshop
stories: | Story One | | Story
Two, Part One | | Story Two, Part
Two | | Story Two, Part Three
|
| Story 3, Part 1 | | Story 3, Part 2 | | Story 3, Part 3 | | Story 4, Part 1 | | Story 4, Part 2 |
R 8/26 Introduction
T 8/31 Reading: Calvino, Carter,
Galeano, Merwin
R 9/2 Due: tale
(300-400 words). Reading: Boccaccio
(see also Pot
of Basil), Marquez,
Petronius
T 9/7 Workshop
R 9/9 Workshop on tales continued. Reading: Luke, Carver, Wilde, Tolstoy, Pritchett
T 9/14 Due: parable, legend updated
(400-500 words). Reading:
Hawthorne,
LeGuin.
R 9/16 Workshop
T 9/21 Workshop. Reading: Babel, Colette.
R 9/23 Reading: Davis, Greene, Phillips
T 9/28 Due: 1st person narrative
(500-600 words). Reading:
Steinbeck, T.
Wolff
R 9/30 Workshop
T 10/5 Workshop. Reading: Updike, Viramontes
R 10/7 Due: Story One
(see guide);
Reading: Houston
T 10/12 Workshop.
R 10/14 Workshop. Gordimer,
Malamud
Friday, 10/15
Midterm: Portfolios should be turned in at my office (Carnegie
201) by 5 p. m.
T 10/19 Reading: Mansfield, Munro
R 10/21 Reading: Due: Story
Two
T 10/26 Fall Break
R 10/28 Workshop. Reading: Boyle
T 11/2 Workshop on Story 2.
Reading: Thurber,
Oates.
R 11/4 Due:
Story
Three [discussion leaders]
T 11/9 Workshop.
R 11/11 Workshop: Point
of View
T 11/16 Workshop
R 11/18 Workshop
T 11/23 Reading: Atwood,
Cheever,
Paley
Due:
Story
Four
R 11/25 Thanksgiving
T 11/30 Workshop: Discussion Leaders
R 12/2 Workshop
T 12/7 Reading: Welty,
Nabokov
(with commentaries that follow the stories); Finishing up.
Friday 12/10 Portfolios
Due, 5 p. m.