Learn to take a short story from raw inspiration to polished completion. Betty Flowers said, “Writing is so complex that sitting down to a fresh sheet of paper can sometimes be like ‘the hardest work among those not possible,’ as Yeats would put it.” What’s your hardest part? Beginning? Continuing? Revising? Finishing? Each phase poses a different challenge, which is why each phase requires us to take a different approach. A finished, polished story is proof that its writer was flexible enough to play each role the story needed. In this course, we will try on all attitudes, aiming to complete a single story, seeing it through the hard parts.