Table of Contents
Write it: All chapters in order here
Intro with video
Lesson 1 Inspiration versus Perspiration
Lesson 2 Should You Sell Direct?
Lesson 3 The Writer as Director
Lesson 4 Think of Unpacking a Suitcase
Lesson 5 What We Know and What We Don’t Know
Lesson 6 Devil in the Details
Lesson 7 Why “the now” Is Key
Lesson 8 “The Now” part 2: Out of Sight and Elmore Leonard
Lesson 9 Trouble or Conflict?
Lesson 10 Build Character for Your Narrative
Lesson 11 Why We Write and Why We Don’t
Lesson 12 Have You Been Silenced? Tillie Olsen
Lesson 13 Q’s for Young Men and Fire by Norman McLean
Lesson 13 Young Men and Fire by Norman McLean discussed with writing exercises: History or memoir and how to blend?
Lesson 14 Q’s for The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
Lesson 14 The Blue Flower discussed with writing exercises: Form and Function in our writing
Lesson 15 Get Ready for Poetry: Why all prose writers should read poetry
Lesson 15 How Poetry Means: part 2
Lesson 15 Meter in Poetry: part 3
Lesson 15 Hopkins and Clampitt: Starting Late: part 4
Lesson 16 Get Ready for Harriet Doer: How she can help you
Lesson 16 Harriet Doer Stones for Ibarra: Setting and how to use it
Lesson 17 Elegy for Iris: memory, biography and the risks we face
Lesson 17 Elegy for Iris, part 2, the risks we take, why it’s never too late
Lesson 17 Elegy for Iris, part 3, and a questionnaire for all writers
Lesson 18 Why I Came to Writing So Late and how my story may help you
Lesson 19 On Reading Lewis Hyde: Why every writer should read his book
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