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Laboratory of Creative Writing. Second group

Date

Hours

19:30–21:30

Place

Education Center

12 sessions

120 min

The laboratory will help participants to overcome the fear of white paper, identify and learn how to avoid some typical beginners’ mistakes, and navigate confidently in the realm of ideas and creations.

Unlike traditional education courses, Laboratory of Creative Writing is composed of meetings that run in an open discussion format, without handout materials or classical literature textbooks. Literature doesn’t know the recipe for successful writing, neither it is governed by immutable canons. However, it is important to distinguish trends informing today’s literary processes—in order to undermine them from time to time where necessary. This is why one of the goals of the Laboratory is to approach certain constructive categories (such as concept, motivation, spontaneity, blank sheet, dominant idea, and rhythm) and start building a conversation about literature around them.

The group will analyze examples of classic and contemporary short fiction, do a range of creative writing exercises, and complete their own literary pieces.

Class size: 15


Price: 14,000 RUB


10% discount for holders of Garage Friends individual card
 

Schedule

The Nature of Fiction Prose

Introduction. The exact place of prose among related forms of writing. Spontaneous writing and storytelling. The importance of spontaneous writing. First and third person.

Date
Thursday, October 3
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

The Key Quality of a Prose Author

Fiction and representation. Prose as a daydream. Active will and hearing. Imagination and representation. The problem of the white sheet.

Date
Thursday, October 10
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Spontaneity of Writing and the Will of a Character

On spontaneity of writing and the character and text’s own will. Dialogue, description, detail.

Date
Thursday, October 17
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Dominant Motif

Reading. The aim of writing and the correction thereof. Historical examples. The principle nonlinearity of writing. The writer as the reader.

Date
Thursday, October 24
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Short story and novella

Moving from the matter of a short story toward long prose. Storytelling and spontaneous writing.

Date
Thursday, October 31
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Individual Project

The concept of an individual project. Text “on its own”, and as an element of cultural space.

Date
Thursday, November 7
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Discussion of Individual Projects

Continuing the work on the lab participants’ individual projects, collective discussion of the first drafts.

Date
Thursday, November 14
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Typification

The problem of typification. Theme and hero.

Date
Thursday, November 21
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Text Composition

The plot and turning points. Culmination, epilogue, happy ending.

Date
Thursday, November 28
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

The Rhythm of Fiction Prose

The rhythm of a given text (the speed and structure of narration). The function of  the paragraph as a unit of prose text.

Date
Thursday, December 5
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

Completed Projects

Discussion of the participants’ final projects.

Date
Thursday, December 12
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center

The Author’s Strategies

The advantages of short prose. Writing strategies.

Date
Thursday, December 19
Time
19:30–21:00
Place
Education Center