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Course Description

Of the key elements of scene and character presentation—image, voice, action, and thought—thought remains underexplored. Indeed, conventional craft advice often warns against relying too much on thinking rather than feeling, claiming that this can lead to overly abstract, "preachy," or static storytelling. In this course, we will examine stories by writers such as James Baldwin, Eudora Welty, and Nadine Gordimer in which characters’ unfolding thoughts and ideas are the core dramatic element. We will then try our hand at the techniques these writers use to capture the great immediacy and nuance of meaning made possible through thought.

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