Secret Ingredients for Next Level Fiction [Megan Kruse]

Powerful fiction: you know it when you read it, but how do we write it? Students will examine work from contemporary fiction masters, including Sherman Alexie, Denis Johnson, and Alice Munro. Then we’ll work on the “secret ingredients” for emotional resonance—the specific techniques that can catapult a story into a work of art, including transcendent details, the Law of Threes, and importance of the ear.