Ticking Clocks: Managing Time in Fiction

In this craft seminar, we will consider how writers use time, with particular attention to the ways writers deliberately call attention to time: interruptions, flashbacks, glimpses of the future, passages quickly carrying the reader through a stretch of many years. In the first hour of the class, we will hold a seminar style discussion of examples from published work. In the second hour, we will complete generative exercises modeled after some of the work discussed.