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...course is designed for students with little or no experience in writing plays. Assignments consist of drafting small dialogues or monologues, while the class culminates in students writing ten-minute long scripts...
...What’s neat about [this course] is that after we do our assignments, they all get read in class, and then everyone makes comments in a very structured way,” Hayes said. “You really feel the pressure of a real playwright, because if your work stinks it could be really embarrassing. It forces you to think of it in a realistic environment...
...first few weeks of the class, I bring in published stories for the students to read and study,” said Lippincott. “This teaches them to read like a writer and thus helps them to learn elements of fictional technique...
...According to Holinger, “Writing a novel is a huge enterprise. Everyone does it differently, and so we discuss process in just about every class...
...addition, Holinger also invites a novelist to speak to his students every semester. For the past several years, this visitor has been a former student of the class...