Last year under the heading of Reading Like a Reader, Fred Shafer discussed the important, but subtle and elusive effects that fiction writers often miss when trying to learn from the models they’ve chosen to study, because they’ve become separated from the full experience of reading. He suggested ways of retrieving and holding onto those effects. This year, he plans to review and extend those points, then shift emphasis to the things writers can learn from paying the same kind of close attention when reading their own manuscripts as they evolve. He’ll use examples from published fiction and drafts of stories to show the value of sustaining the habit of learning throughout the process of writing.
Fred Shafer is a literary editor and teacher of writing. He was an editor with TriQuarterly, the international literary journal published by Northwestern University, where he taught fiction writing in the School of Professional Studies for many years. He leads a group of private workshops in short story and novel writing.
Fred Shafer will accept manuscripts for critique. Please see manuscript section on our website for details: https://ocww.info/page-18211
