Laura van den Berg

author of THE THIRD HOTEL, I HOLD A WOLF BY THE EARS & STATE OF PARADISE

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The Imitation Exercise

July 29, 2013 By Laura

I do this one most semesters and it goes like this: Type up a bunch of passages from published short stories that demonstrate techniques you would like your students to imitate. I like to do enough passages that each student will draw something different, but you don’t have … [Read more...]

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