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One Day Short Courses

Life on the Page

Course Description

You will learn how to identify strong characters, construct a narrative from the events of a life and write vivid descriptions that take the reader inside the experience of your subject. Bring a pen and notebook, and an image or artifact associated with someone about whom you plan to write.