1. Harvard University Extension School CREA E25: Introduction to Fiction Section 3 7:40PM-9:40PM Canvas Site: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/8244/pages/homepage-2-organized-content Instructor: Julie Anne McNary ***Please DO NOT engage your Video Camera Please Do Check your Audio Wizard

2. Your Instructor: Julie Anne McNary B.A., Wellesley College, 1994 English Literature M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education, 1995 Language and Literacy MA/M.F.A, University of Utah, 1998 British & American Literature and Creative Writing Cell Phone: (617) 233-7532 – no calls after 10PM – Voicemail during business hours jmcnary@me.com

3. Introduction Discussion of Indian Camp and other readings; First Writing Exercises, 1 & 2 Class Lecture Assignment: Writing Exercise 3

4. Indian Camp Focused Class Discussion on Indian Camp, Wharton, O’Brien, and Lehane, etc.

5. Class Lecture Filtered through our readings… Show don’t Tell Show don’t Tell Great Beginnings Great Beginnings Plot versus Sub-Plot Plot versus Sub-Plot Common Pitfalls Common Pitfalls “But it really happened!” “But it really happened!” The Importance of Character-Driven Stories The Importance of Character-Driven Stories

6. EXERCISE 3 In this three part, three-voice, three-Point of View (POV) exercise, please attempt to create the following (ideally no more than 2 pages each): In this three part, three-voice, three-Point of View (POV) exercise, please attempt to create the following (ideally no more than 2 pages each): Section One: First Person POV, voice of a child describing a scene, a place, an action, etc. in which that child found him/herself often. Consider the unique, fresh voice of that child, and try not to default to clichéd or “typically” generic baby talk…Remember, there are infinite possibilities there; kids can be very precocious, associative, imaginative, shy, and/or very incoherently hyper, and everything in between, etc. Section One: First Person POV, voice of a child describing a scene, a place, an action, etc. in which that child found him/herself often. Consider the unique, fresh voice of that child, and try not to default to clichéd or “typically” generic baby talk…Remember, there are infinite possibilities there; kids can be very precocious, associative, imaginative, shy, and/or very incoherently hyper, and everything in between, etc. Section Two: Second Person POV. An Adult looking back and addressing that child. Can be same character as an adult, or another person who was close to that child and present in the scene above. Ideally, in that particular scene from the past, this person saw or understood something that the child never did, and in the “now” attempts to reveal this to the child, but as carefully as an adult might do so if that child were really present; i.e. “You never knew it, but…” Section Two: Second Person POV. An Adult looking back and addressing that child. Can be same character as an adult, or another person who was close to that child and present in the scene above. Ideally, in that particular scene from the past, this person saw or understood something that the child never did, and in the “now” attempts to reveal this to the child, but as carefully as an adult might do so if that child were really present; i.e. “You never knew it, but…” Section Three: Third Person, a third party who was present at the first section, but also knows the character in the current time of the second section and has observations about the “bigger picture” that neither the child, nor the adult in section two know or understand... Section Three: Third Person, a third party who was present at the first section, but also knows the character in the current time of the second section and has observations about the “bigger picture” that neither the child, nor the adult in section two know or understand...

7. Tentative Workshop Schedule March 2 (due date, TBW 3/9): March 2 (due date, TBW 3/9): Story 1 Story 1 Story 2 Story 2 March 9 (due date; TBW 3/23): March 9 (due date; TBW 3/23): Story 1 Story 1 Story 2 Story 2 March 23 (due date; TBW 4/6): March 23 (due date; TBW 4/6): Story 1 Story 1 Story 2 Story 2 Story 3 Story 3 April 6 (due date; TBW 4/13): April 6 (due date; TBW 4/13): Story 1 Story 1 Story 2 Story 2 Story 3 Story 3 April 13 (due date; TBW 4/20): April 13 (due date; TBW 4/20): Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 April 20 (due date TBW 4/27): April 20 (due date TBW 4/27): Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 April 27 (due date; TBW 5/4): April 27 (due date; TBW 5/4): Story 1 Story 2 7