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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

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If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

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Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book (Official Music Video)

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“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer. ”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

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'The Country Husband'

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The Key? "Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life." 

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The Key? "Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life." 

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Isaac Bashevis Singer, "Not a Typical Yiddish Writer"

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“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.” ― John Cheever

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“The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.” ― John Cheever

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"The letters stand for Action, Background, Development, Climax, and Ending. You begin with action that is compelling enough to draw [the reader] in, make us want to know more. Background is where you ... see and know who these people are, how they've come to be together, what was going on before the opening of the story. Then you develop these people, so that we learn what they care most about. The plot – the drama, the actions, the tension – will grow out of that. You move them along until everything comes together in the climax, after which things are different for the main characters, different in some real way. And then there is the ending: what is our sense of who these people are now, what are they left with, what happened, and what did it mean?"

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To read and analyse
Alice Adams 'Roses, Rhododendron' and
'The Key' by I.B. Singer ' and to discuss the short story as a form that explores how our experiences shape the person we become.

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By the end of the session, you will be able confidently discuss the short story as a device to explore our lives.

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To read and analyse Alice Adams 'Roses, Rhododendron' and
Dorothy Parker's 'Here We are' and to discuss the short story as a form that explores how our experiences shape the person we become.