Writing Funny Short Stories
Taught by Jonathan Schwartz
Ages 9-11, 15 students
Wednesdays: March 3, 10, 17, 2010 (3 sessions): 6-7:30pm
In this three-session workshop, we'll write funny stories. Some say it's difficult to be funny in writing, but I say it's easy to be funny if you don't have to be funny for a long time. So, with that in mind, we'll keep our stories short. Before you sign up for this workshop, the question you need to ask yourself is "Do I think I'm funny?" If so, come on in. If not, come anyway. We'll spend our first two sessions writing. On our third and final session, we'll edit our stories and perform them for the crowd (which will be made up of us and your parents.) All genres welcome — realistic fiction, science fiction, historical fiction, detective fiction, fantasy, tall tales, and so on.
Jonathan Schwartz received an MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College in Boston, where he wrote a few tall tales of his own. He just graduated from U of M with a masters in Education. In the past, he taught third grade in New York City, worked briefly as a line cook in a breakfast joint, on the assembly line of a candle factory, for a life insurance company, and as a vacation club salesman.
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