Fiction teacher

(1978 August 8)

A word about my Thursday class on Fiction Writing. I went at 7 and found I was half an hour late! ... When I looked in the classroom door, my heart sunk. A guru-looking man very thin sat with back to blackboard with his class in circle pulled up close. There was a chair for me and within 10 minutes I saw what a kind man he was and capable of getting us to think. He is writer in residence this summer, sponsored by Arts Council. He uses the Story Method. If you can tell it, you can write it. So we have to think of certain words when he waves those long thin fingers at us.