Capstone: Developing the Manuscript: Fiction or Nonfiction

This course is meant to follow CREA E-597, in which students built the imaginative world of their books and produced the first story or chapter of them. In this workshop, students write two additional chapters or stories, or approximately 30 pages of new work. The capstone project in total should be about 50-60 pages—the equivalent of a thesis. Students submit the entire manuscript—the plan and the three chapters, stories, or essays developed during both the precapstone and capstone courses—at the end of the second semester, but instructors read and comment on only the two new chapters.