Course Goals

I hope to learn how to get out of my own skin and enter the mindset of another person in order to fully experience their situation, as opposed to writing about someone from an outside perspective.

I hope to learn how to better edit my own work. When it comes to spelling, grammar, and other mechanics problems I, more or less, have things under control. However, when it comes to more substantive aspects such as style, prose, and dialogue I am not overly critical of myself.

I hope to learn how to be concise. My writing often seems to loose its message due to long and drawn out sentences, witty non-substantive phrases, et cetera. The amount of padding I use makes it seem that I have little understanding of my topic, when really it is quite the contrary. More over, I don't want people to feel frustrated when reading my work.