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...friends’ lives are fair game,” she grinned, leaning forward and shaking a lock of sun-streaked hair from her face. Meeting weekly with her thesis advisor, novelist Suzanne Berne, Charity said she discovered “how hard it is to write good fiction—even just readable fiction.” Some of her stories, which average about 15 pages each, went through 20 drafts before she found them satisfactory, and even now she feels that her collection isn’t really finished. Intense as the experience...
...fall he plans to continue to refine his collection while completing a two-year MFA program at the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, “a big writers community stuck out in the cornfields with nothing to do but drink in the two bars there and write...
...order to apply for a creative thesis, interested juniors must submit a sizable writing sample as well as a prospectus of the project they wish to undertake. Brad Watson, director of the creative writing program and advisor to several fiction theses, said if there was one piece of advice he could offer to those aspiring to write creative theses, it would be to take some of the fiction workshops offered by the department...
While opportunities to write poetry and fiction have always been available for creative thesis writers, this coming year aspiring playwrights and screenwriters will have a little more guidance than they have in the past. Todd A. Kessler ’94, a screenwriter and producer for the HBO hit television show “The Sopranos,” will offer a screenwriting workshop next year in addition to advising several dramatic thesis writers...
...such writer, David D. Kornhaber ’02, who is also a Crimson editor, said he was thrilled by the appointment because he and others interested in dramatic writing had specifically petitioned the department to bring in a lecturer to advise dramatic theses. Already the author of several plays, including two recently produced at Harvard, David plans to begin work on his thesis this summer in Paris. Inspired by a visit to the Paris catacombs the summer after his freshman year, he plans to write a play about the man who built the massive underground crypt during the 1780s...