An exercise: How we fear our work will be received.On sentimentality and reader resistance.Fictionalizing a true grief experience-how is it received differently?.And now that you’re here: the sound of grief with some short examples.Considering other “containers” for grief.Fictionalizing a true grief experience-how is it written differently?.An exercise: Letters to ourselves before a moment of grief.Introduction to the class and each other.What does it mean to complete a story about pain that might not be finished for us? Finally, we will explore what happens after we tell our stories. Together we will read very short selections from a variety of genres by writers who, by making themselves vulnerable, can make us feel seen, and we will share, when comfortable, sections of our own writing with each other. We’ll consider how sound, sentence structure, and story building can all be used to communicate feeling. We will explore concepts of sentimentality and reader resistance. How does distance from a painful event affect the way we tell a story? How does fictionalizing a close experience of grief affect the way it is received and how we write it? Which structures are best to hold what we have to say? In this class, we will explore ways to write experiences of grief, particularly our own. To join the waitlist, please email Thierry Kehou at.
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