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Fall 2020 Writing Reboot
Welcome!
Welcome to the Fall 2020 Writing Reboot
Please introduce yourself
Zoom dates
Downloads
Download Your Weekly Planners
Course Workbook Now Available
Week One
Intro Video Part 1: Starting a Habit, Setting Goals, & How Not to Do Math (10:06)
Intro Video Part 2: What will you write this week? Plus Wild Card Days (6:17)
Video: The Evolution of Story Ideas (7:04)
Setting Manageable Goals
Assignment: Building from a Remembered Detail
Experiment: A Modeled Story
Download: Week 1 Goal Sheet & Schedule
How to Submit Your Writing to Me
Week One Discussion
Week One Share Space (optional)
Sept. 12 Zoom Replay (72:20)
Week 2
Week Two Live Session Replay
Video - How to "Just Write" - Writing When You're Not Inspired (5:39)
Video: Writing Through Continued Rejection (21:27)
Devising a Better Outline & Reverse Engineering Your Novel or Memoir
25 Quick Writing Prompts
Week Two Assignment & Share Space
For Further Reading - Running/Walking & Writing
Week Two Discussion
Week 3
Week Three Live Session Replay (Sat Sept. 26) (67:16)
Video - Writing Truths that Transcend Form & Genre (18:23)
Video - Developing Your Voice (11:00)
Kishotenketsu & Beyond: Getting Outside Your Comfort Zone with Narrative & Lyric forms
Craft Video - Analyzing Inciting Incidents in a Literary Novel (16:39)
Week Three Assignment & Share Space
Week Three Discussion
For Further Reading
Week 4
Week Four Live Session Replay (plus book recommendations), Sept. 30, 11:00 am PT (65:54)
Download - Week 4 Planner
Video - Thieves of Reality: Writing About Real People & Events in Fiction and Memoir (8:08)
Video - Intuitive Story Development (10:51)
Video - Writing Through the (Literal) Noise (2:34)
Craft Video - Creating a Worthy Antagonist (7:46)
Process: Getting Vulnerable: The Power of the Emotional Reveal
Tips: 5 Daily Habits to Energize Your Writing Life
Week Four Assignment & Share Space
Week Four Discussion
Week 5
Week 5 Welcome (7:59)
Video - Accessing Emotion Through Personal Experience (4:43)
Craft: The Art of Detail: Significance, & Subtlety
Audio - Process: Finding Your Way into Writing & Creating New Pathways
Process: In Defense of Slow Writing
Craft Video - Characterization: Introducing Your Protagonist (7:20)
Video - The Writing Business: Traditional Vs. Independent Publishing (14:34)
Video - The Writing Business: Submitting Your Work to Literary Magazines (12:13)
Week 5 Assignments & Share Space
Week Five Discussion
Week Five Zoom Replay (69:01)
Week 6
Video - How to Maintain Your Writing Habit (17:33)
Video - Lessons from 20 Years of Writing (17:39)
Setting Parameters for Your Writing Project
On Rejection, Pandemic Publishing, Writing too Much, and Moving On
Your writing tribe - Connecting with other writers beyond this class
Week Six Assignment & Share Space
Week Six Discussion
Week Six Live Session Replay, Oct. 21 (75:58)
Video: The Evolution of Story Ideas
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