Workshop Materials

How to Make Your Stories Move (Better), by Gary Lawrence (9/9/2017)

• PowerPoint Presentation can be found here:  How to Make Your Stories Move_GCC_170909.
• “Garage Sale” story can be found here: GARAGE SALE_130901

The Art of Syntax, or How to Write a Sexy Sentence, by Jayme Cook (3/25/2017)

• Google Slides presentation can be found here.

Characterization: Populating Your World with Realistic People, by Mark Broeske (11/5/2016)

• Book List
  • Ron Carlson Writes a Story, by Ron Carlson
  • The Art of Fiction, by John Gardner
  • The Portable MFA in Creative Writing, by the New York Writers Workshop
  • A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction, by Jack Hodgins
• PowerPoint
  • saturday-workshop-broeske-characterization

Flash Fiction, by Gary Lawrence (9/13/2014)

• Presentation Materials
  • flash fiction_lawrence_140913 (Run in slide show for full effect.)
  • flash fiction_article links (Various reference materials.)
• Story List (links unavailable due to copyright restrictions
  • “August Evening”, by Joyce Carol Oates
  • “How to Touch a Bleeding dog”, by Rod Kessler
  • “Sandy”, by Brian Doyle
  • “The Stones”, by Richard Shelton
  • “Chapter VII”, by Ernest Hemingway, from In Our Time

Managing Time in Fiction, by Gary Lawrence (10/2013)

• The presentation focused on using Hemingway’s “The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber” to discuss how writers manage time in fiction.
• PowerPoint
  • time in fiction_2012
• “The Short Happy Life of Frances Macomber” (full text), by Ernest Hemingway