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6-Week Writing Reboot
Welcome!
Welcome to the Writing Reboot
Please introduce yourself
Writing Reboot Planning Worksheets
Week One
Video: Starting a Habit & Setting Goals (10:06)
Video: 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
Week One Discussion
What to Write: 25 Quick Writing Prompts
Week 2
Process: Intuitive Story & Essay Development (VIDEO) (10:51)
Setting Parameters for Your Writing Project
Craft: Thieves of Reality: Writing About Real People & Events in Fiction and Memoir (VIDEO) (8:08)
For Further Reading - Running/Walking & Writing
What to Write: Getting Outside Your Comfort Zone with Narrative & Lyric forms
Week Two Discussion
Week 3
Process: How to "Just Write" - Writing When You're Not Inspired (VIDEO) (5:39)
Inspiration: Developing Your Voice (VIDEO) (11:00)
Inspiration: Writing Truths that Transcend Form & Genre (VIDEO) (18:23)
Craft: Inciting Incidents in Literary Fiction (VIDEO) (16:39)
Structuring a Flash Fiction, Short Story, or Novella
For Further Reading
Week Three Discussion
Week 4
Inspiration: How to Maintain Your Writing Habit (VIDEO) (17:33)
Process: Accessing Emotion Through Personal Experience (VIDEO) (4:43)
Inspiration: Writing Through Continued Rejection (VIDEO) (21:27)
Process: Getting Vulnerable: The Power of the Emotional Reveal
Craft: Devising a Better Outline & Reverse Engineering Your Novel or Memoir
Tips: 5 Daily Habits to Energize Your Writing Life
Week Four Discussion
Further reading: How to Write a Personal Essay for the New York Times
Week 5
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: Submitting Your Work to Literary Magazines (12:13)
Week Five Discussion
Video - Writing Through the (Literal) Noise (2:34)
Craft Video - Creating a Worthy Antagonist (7:46)
Week 6
Video - Lessons from 20 Years of Writing (17:39)
Video - How to Handle Rejection and Keep Writing
Week Six Assignment
Week Six Discussion
Thank You and Next Steps
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