Fiction Writing I is a course designed to provide the student entering the MFA program in fiction a grasp of the central principles of writing professional quality fiction. Students will submit to the instructor every four weeks 30 pages of manuscript, double-spaced, 12 point font, with pagination. In addition, and on a schedule established with the instructor, students will submit on a bi-weekly basis a reading journal covering the reading assignments accomplished during the period. By the end of the course the student should have completed between 60 and 120 pages of polished fictional prose (prose well beyond the first or second draft).