LLWRC 780 - Toolbox Basics

This course will focus on a group of specific techniques for shaping and informing your creative skills including voice, tone, and point of view; use of tense; and use of detail. Through analysis and discussion of sample texts and numerous in-class exercises, we will work toward achieving vivid precision. Each session will focus on a different tool or group of related tools; come prepared to read, write, and talk. This course is designed (but not required) to be taken in conjunction with Read Like a Writer (LLWRC 779).