Meets once a week via Zoom on Saturdays from 1:00 to 3:00 pm EST, hosted by the Center for Fiction in Brooklyn. (But we’ll concentrate on nonfiction!)
You can register here.

Writers love Joan Didion’s work for all kinds of reasons—her insights, her descriptions, her wicked sense of humor. But what can we learn about the craft of writing from Didion’s work? After all, she often said that the way a writer says things is even more revealing than what they say.

In this workshop, we’ll take a close look at Didion’s essays, discovering the ways she approached specific challenges. Then we’ll try her methods out for ourselves. We’ll focus on some of Didion’s lesser-known writing in order to approach it with fresh eyes. We’ll let Didion teach us how to write.

Course Outline:

• Week 1: Creating a Narrator

• Week 2: Setting the Scene

• Week 3: Describing Your World

• Week 4: Finding Your Ending

Level: Introductory

This course will be held online via Zoom.