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Fiction/In-person 2526-307

Course #Fiction/In-person 2526-307
Wednesdays Starting February 4 6:00 pm–9:00 pm running 4 weeks
Cost: $225 Instructor: Scott Repass
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This is an in-person workshop that takes place at Inprint House

The Road Trip—A Generative Workshop

Craft fresh stories in this generative workshop back by popular demand! The Road Trip is one of the oldest tropes in literature—there is something fundamental to our nature that is drawn to stories about heroes setting out on quests, returning in triumph, or escaping to a new life. Think of Odysseus, Huck Finn, Peewee Herman. The Road Trip can provide stories with structure, conflict, and desire, regardless of the length of the story.

Using the short stories “Work” by Denis Johnson and “Pretty Ice” by Mary Robison as our roadmaps, we will discuss key elements of fiction craft. Each week, the class will include generative exercises based on class discussions. The exercises together are meant to combine to form a story. In other words, if all goes well, by the end of the course, you will have a cohesive first draft of a new piece.

All styles and genres are welcome. We will read from our exercises each week and provide each other oral feedback. PDFs of craft essays and short stories will be provided for optional further reading.

About the Instructor

SCOTT REPASS has been a bar owner, a bartender, an actor, a carpenter, and a barista. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Film Quarterly, Literature/Film Quarterly, Houston and Nomadic Voices, The Heartland Review, Fort Necessity, and elsewhere. His novel, Last Call Lounge, was co-winner of the 2012 Houston Writers Guild Novel Contest. He holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Houston Creative Writing Program and has a Master of Liberal Studies degree from City University of New York where he wrote his master’s thesis on body-switching movies. Scott currently lives in Houston, where he and his wife own Poison Girl, the best bar on the planet.

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