May 10, 2002

The Writing Teacher on the Screen

By MELORA WOLFF

Over the past weeks since I saw the movie Storytelling, I've been preparing in my imagination a film festival, "The Writing Teacher in the Movies," for my creative-writing students. My festival will be subtitled "Beasts and Fiends" and is open to all members of all departments. "Your subtitle," I imagine the vicious fiction teacher in Storytelling haranguing me: "Is that supposed to be some kind of joke?"

Well, yes and no. Actually, my festival's subtitle is from another film, Hal

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