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Authors and Authors-to-Be Hone Their Skills in Classes and Workshops |
| Section: LIFE / CAREER |
| Author: Jen Waters |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2006 |
| Size: 879 Words, 5,725 Characters |
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Maren Michel is turning her reality into fiction. As a graduate student in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, she is working on short stories and a novel, most of which are inspired by personal experiences.
"I have a historical novel in process," Michel says. "It's based in part on my family's history of immigration. It's an immigrant story."
To try to improve their writing skills, some scribes opt to earn specialized degrees in creative writing, while others take classes as part of a nondegree program. The instruction usually is tailored to fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction.
An education in writing can help a student sift through various processes for writing and deci...
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...Students in his classes must write five to 10 pages of fiction per week. "You don't learn anything at a university about writing that you couldn't learn by yourself," Kuka says. "It speeds up the process. You have a certain sensitivity to language. Without input from other writers, you might find yourself making terrible mistakes and never know it."
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