Week 1

Fri 1.17.03

none

Tues 1.21.03

Post: Alternate Autobiography

Week 2

Fri 1.24.03

WLS (Writing Life Stories): "Getting Started"; GPR (Grove Press Reader): "Barney Rosset on Tropic of Cancer"; Nin, "Preface to Tropic of Cancer"; Miller, "From Tropic of Cancer"

Mon 1.27.03

Post: Draft: Piece #1

Week 3

* Conferences

Fri 1.31.03

WLS: "Memory," "Scenemaking"; GPR: "Terry Southern on Naked Lunch"; Burroughs, "From Naked Lunch"

Mon 2.3.03

Post: Feedback: Piece #1

Fri 2.7.03

GPR: Winterson, "From The Passion"; Self, "From Great Apes"

Mon 2.10.03

Post: Flash Fabulism

Fri 2.14.03

Read workshop pieces

WLS: "Big Ideas"

Fri 2.14.03

Write letters to author

Due: Finished Piece #1

Fri 2.21.03

Read workshop pieces

WLS: "Characters and Character"

Fri 2.21.03

Write letters to author

Post: Draft: Piece #2

Mon 2.24.03

Post: Feedback: Piece #2

Week 7

* Conferences

Fri 2.28.03

No class

Fri 2.28.03

No class

Mon 3.10.03

Post: none (work on revision of Piece #2)

Week 8

Spring Break

No Class

none

Week 9

Fri 3.14.03

Read workshop pieces

WLS: "Stage Presence"; "Finding the Facts"

Fri 3.14.03

Write letters to author

Due: Finished Piece #2

Mon 3.17.03

Fri 3.21.03

Read workshop pieces

WLS: "Metaphor and Meaning"

Fri 3.21.03

Write letters to author

Mon 3.24.03

Week 11

*Conferences

Fri 3.28.03

Read workshop piece

WLS: "Saying It Right"

Fri 3.28.03

Write letter to author

Mon 3.31.03

Post: Feedback: Piece #3

Week 12

Fri 4.4.03

WLS: "Building a Building"

GPR: TBD

Due: Finished Piece #3

Mon 4.7.03

Post: Reflection: Bending Genres

Fri 4.11.03

WLS: "Reaching Readers"

GPR: TBD

Mon 4.14.03

Post: 50 Things to Write About

Week 14

Good Friday

No Class

none

Week 15

* Last class

Fri 4.25.03

none

Fri 4.25.03

Due: Final Portfolios