Precapstone: Building the World of the Book: Fiction or Nonfiction

In this course, students engage in a series of structured creative writing exercises that make it possible for them to delve deeply into their characters—what they look like, what they want and need, and how they interact with the world in which they live—as they structure the imaginative world of their fiction.

Students draft the first chapter of their capstone novel or the first story in their capstone collection (15-20 pages).

Students also write a plan for their projects (5-10 pages) in which they create a roadmap of their book, bringing the plot and key characters into focus and defining the audience for their stories.