The Muse & the Marketplace 2016

In his writing guide How Fiction Works, critic James Wood uses Dostoevsky as a model for how writers must show the three crucial layers of a character to make them feel real. This class will show how to tap into the conscious, subconscious, and unconscious layers of a great modern character - whether fictional or nonfictional. Using exercises based around essays and stories by Flannery O'Connor, Virginia Woolf, and more, students will be able to create rich, multi-faceted characters who are as real as can be.