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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