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Crisis Creates Us: The Secret Heart of Story

This class explores how crisis functions to unify narrative structure, worldbuilding, and character development. We will get into the nitty-gritty nuts and bolts of plot and touch on wider questions of art and politics in literature. Consider how crisis plays out across our daily newsfeeds—problems that have been going on for decades suddenly explode into national consciousness because protest or politics brings them to the forefront with urgent narratives of crisis.

In crafting literary arcs, we launch our characters head first into crisis, which can be giant and earth-shattering or intimate, an apocalypse or a break-up and everything in between.

Instructions for Accessing This Online Class

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