In this workshop course, non-fiction students will explore how to craft nonfiction narratives of varying lengths from a half-formed idea or impulse. The focus will be twofold: first to generate ideas for pieces based on individual interests, with some suggestions, then to work with different scales and narrative strategies. (This kind of work might also serve as preparation for the Capstone.) Building on the elements of craft students have already explored at earlier levels (language, structure, research, revision), students will develop short and more extended pieces over the semester. Readings will cover a range of nonfiction narratives and writers’ reflections that serve as models of creative problem solving. Throughout the semester, we will grapple with a perennial writer’s question: I have an idea – now what do I do with it? For poetry students, the focus of the course will be twofold: one the workshop and one an examination on the relationship between forms. Of the latter, we will think about and practice the ways in which forms can function with, and perhaps, against, our own creative impulses, as well as the ideas of poetry (content, history, genre, school, etc.). Through a combination of workshops and presentations, we will focus on how we as poets might use what poets have done to investigate ways of writing that seem a little outside our usual ways of thinking.