New Course
The Space Between
Writing in the Tradition of Modern Japanese Fiction
Weeks 1–8 are now linked from this landing page.
Week 1
The Weight of Small Things
Sensory precision, the mundane as sacred, and the art of noticing what everyone else walks past.
Week 2
The Translator's Ghost
Translation as collaborative authorship, sentence rhythm, and reading two writers at once.
Week 3
What the Silence Says
Strategic omission, ma, and the emotional architecture of writing what remains unsaid.
Week 4
The Surreal Next Door
Surreal mundanity, tone control, and verb precision for writing matter-of-fact strangeness.
Week 5
The Sound of a Voice
Narrator stance, first-sentence signatures, and voice as a craft decision.
Week 6
The Meal
Capstone scene drafting and structural control under sustained narrative pressure.
Week 7
The Ending That Isn't
Open endings that resonate without resolving, and final images that keep the reader thinking past the page.
Week 8
The Whole Art
Capstone week: synthesize the course techniques through full-story revision, integration, and final polish.