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How Embarrassing!: Shame as Narrative Escalation [Alissa Nutting]

This course will focus on developing your characters’ motivations and personalities by tying their most humiliating traits and secrets to plot development. In addition to writing exercises, we will explore and analyze textual examples by authors such as Junot Diaz, Lynda Barry, David Sedaris, and George Saunders.