In Crafting Short Fiction from the Sentence Up, I will learn the craft of sentences and scenes. I am very excited about this course because I have been a writer for much of my life and I felt that I did not get adequate instruction in creative writing. By breaking the process down to its smallest component, the sentence, I hope to improve my writing skills and use them to continue working on a story idea I started over the summer. In the end, a story is just many sentences and scenes strung together with a plot, so if I begin with strong sentences I hope I can write a good novel. This project will likely stretch far beyond this semester and this course, but I hope that the skills I’ll learn will prove invaluable for years to come.