October 31, 2003

A Boot Camp for Creative Writing

By CHARLES JOHNSON

If our furniture was as poorly made as our fiction, we would always be falling onto the floor.-- John Gardner

One of my life's great ironies is that, while I've taught in a distinguished creative-writing program for 27 years at the University of Washington (we have three MacArthur fellows in a faculty of nine), I've never taken a college-level creative-writing workshop, nor did I want to back in the 1970s. Back then, when I first began furiously writing fiction, the last thing I wanted

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