Day 1: Pattern and Structure in Narrative
Most of us have a million characters and stories floating around our brains, but these ideas can often feel nebulous and abstract without a frame to arrange and explore them. In “Pattern and Structure in Narrative,” Rob Crowl will guide participants through various strategies and exercises designed to help writers organize stories and characters they’ve never set down, the ones collecting dust on their shelves and hard-drives, or those still in process. Writers will also get to investigate the various ways successful novelists, memoirists, and short storyists have patterned and structured their stories to assist in the organization of their own projects.
About Rob:
Rob Crowl is a professor of composition, literary studies, and creative writing at Austin Community College, and he’s also taught at Concordia University of Texas, Meridian World School, and in various public schools in the Austin, Texas area for over 15 years. He focuses on helping reluctant artists tell the stories only they can tell by empowering them to play with existing literacies and by helping them to innovate classical and contemporary creative techniques. For the last 25 years, Rob’s also been a writer, musician, and performing artist which has kept him curious and unfinished.
