[MUSIC] Welcome to the second week of the Capstone. We're calling this week's Strategies for Making a Coherent Whole. You have received the gift and the curse of a deadline, and that deadline is in two weeks for the full first draft of your story. That story is going to be reviewed by your peers. So, we're hoping that it's going to be in a really good shape by then, but of course, it won't be in a final shape. As of the end of last week, you've collected your materials, your ideas, your index cards, your scraps of thought. Most importantly, we hope the pieces of work and description and dialogue and characterization, style exercises, all of those things from your other classes that seem to speak to you in a way that bears expanding into a full story. Well, let's talk about gathering them into coherent form. For this purpose, I'll be joined by Professor Amy Bloom in a discussion of composition strategies. And then in the segment following, we'll have a further discussion with national book award winner novelist, Jamie Gordon, touching on this subject and others confronting writers, as they began to work their materials into a whole. [MUSIC]