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Writing is an exploration.
You start from nothing and learn as you go.
-- E.L. Doctorow

I teach fiction classes and workshops through UC Berkeley Extension and privately. I am also available for individual consultations.


SPRING CLASS

REGISTER NOW for Developing the Novel

10 meetings
Wednesdays, 6:30-9:30 pm
March 12 - May 21
 UC Berkeley Extension
Berkeley, CA

Designed for writers who are interested in developing ideas and characters for a novel, this course explores the craft of longer fiction and ways of meeting its creative challenges. Each session includes a lecture on craft, supported by discussion of assigned readings and exercises to unlock the potential of your ideas. You learn how to develop characters, language, voice, pace, tone, theme, and setting, and you participate in a group critique of student work. When you finish this course, you can produce sample chapters of your novel and have a plan for how to proceed.

Enroll online here or write to me privately to ask about this class!

What students say . . .

Ericka's teaching style is one of the most effective I've ever encountered. She doesn't teach with just a handful of one-liners, only asking writers to 'show instead of tell.' Rather, Ericka's style is much more insightful and adaptive. Ericka critiques with an eye sensitive to all the qualities that most writers are trying to obtain -- from simple mechanics, to style of prose, to fleshing out the message that her students are trying to convey. I would highly recommend her to anyone who is trying to become the best writer they can be. She is one of the sharpest teachers out there.
                                                                                             
-- Max Delgado

Ericka is truly a writer's teacher, insightful, perceptive, and -- perhaps most important -- deeply caring. She deftly guides writers in unlocking their own creativity.
                                                                                             
-- Camille J. Cusumano

Read more testimonials here. . .

(c) Ericka Lutz, 2007