Week 2 Agenda [Tentative]

Friday, January 24

• Syllabus Questions, RR#1, & Google Drive
• Discussion Leader: Dr. Moreira
• Diaz, "Becoming a Writer"
• Lamott, "Shitty First Drafts"
• Tuch, “The Submitter’s Dilemma”
• Barret, “What Editors Want”
• Laplante, Ch. 13
• Carver, “The Bath” & “A Small, Good Thing” (458-480)
• Intro to New Pages, Journal List, Story Ideas List & New Yorker Fiction Podcasts
• Preparing for Workshop #0
• Homework
• Prepare for Workshop #0: Dr. Moreira
• Start drafting your Journal List and Story Ideas List in your Google Drive folder:
• name your Google Docs like this:
• JournalList-YourFullName
• Ideas-YourFullName
• Print/read/bring the following to class for discussion next Friday:
• “What is the Objective Correlative?” (available under READINGS)
• “Understanding the Objective Correlative” (available under READINGS)
• Ch. 3
• O’Brien, “The Things They Carried” (79-92)
• Complete RR#2 by midnight on Wednesday