Name: Joyce Carol Oates Teaches the Art of the Short Story | Official Trailer | MasterClass
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All those subjects relate to many people who have no outlet.

As a writer, if one can face the darkest elements in oneself

exploring your own imagination deep within you.

And we're going to begin with shorter forms,

because short stories, short monologues, poetry, things

that you can finish and show other people--

that's very satisfying and necessary for a writer.

of this little uplift that we get psychologically

There are two ways of looking at writing.

One way is that you're telling a story very transparently.

The other is that you're telling a story with language,

If it reads too fast, then it might be superficial.

A person reads it in five minutes, it's all over.

So we're also going to be exploring a writing workshop.

Like, what doesn't go in for dinner tonight,

So your story has a few too many bits in it.

Art is the way that we communicate with one another.

feels that he or she is a writer, you probably are.

Everybody has at least one story to tell.

You should be writing about things that surprise you.

I think that is the instinct for all kinds of art.

All you need to do, really, is to take that instinct

I'm Joyce Carol Oates, and this is my MasterClass.

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Joyce Carol Oates Teaches the Art of the Short Story | Official Trailer | MasterClass

instinct

expression

explore

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