How to Tell a Story

Harvard FAS

How to tell a story? How do writers discover character, imagine worlds, and shape narrative time? This open-enrollment creative writing course will focus on the cornerstones of storytelling. We will move through an expansive reading list—for there is no writing without reading—designed to showcase the many different shapes a story can take. Ask any writer why they became a writer, and they'll tell you that it's because they read. (Octavia Butler, who came from a…