This course is designed to help you develop the basic writerly habit of paying careful attention to the world around you and recording what you see and hear in some way. Most importantly, the course is designed to help you find your unique voice as a story writer. You’ll be asked to write a lot—a notebook, exercises, and at least one substantial draft of a story. The basic format of the class will be a workshop. At the end of the course, I expect that you’ll have learned about the importance of substance and structure to a story and written a story, a draft of a story, or made measurable progress on beginning a novel.