Week One
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Video: Starting a Habit & Setting Goals (10:06)
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Video: What will you write this week? Plus Wild Card Days (6:17)
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Video: The Evolution of Story Ideas (7:04)
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Setting Manageable Goals
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Assignment: Building from a Remembered Detail
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Experiment: A Modeled Story
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Download: Week 1 Goal Sheet & Schedule
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Week One Discussion
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What to Write: 25 Quick Writing Prompts
Week 2
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Process: Intuitive Story & Essay Development (VIDEO) (10:51)
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Setting Parameters for Your Writing Project
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Craft: Thieves of Reality: Writing About Real People & Events in Fiction and Memoir (VIDEO) (8:08)
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For Further Reading - Running/Walking & Writing
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What to Write: Getting Outside Your Comfort Zone with Narrative & Lyric forms
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Week Two Discussion
Week 3
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Process: How to "Just Write" - Writing When You're Not Inspired (VIDEO) (5:39)
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Inspiration: Developing Your Voice (VIDEO) (11:00)
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Inspiration: Writing Truths that Transcend Form & Genre (VIDEO) (18:23)
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Craft: Inciting Incidents in Literary Fiction (VIDEO) (16:39)
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Structuring a Flash Fiction, Short Story, or Novella
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For Further Reading
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Week Three Discussion
Week 4
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Inspiration: How to Maintain Your Writing Habit (VIDEO) (17:33)
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Process: Accessing Emotion Through Personal Experience (VIDEO) (4:43)
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Inspiration: Writing Through Continued Rejection (VIDEO) (21:27)
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Process: Getting Vulnerable: The Power of the Emotional Reveal
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Craft: Devising a Better Outline & Reverse Engineering Your Novel or Memoir
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Tips: 5 Daily Habits to Energize Your Writing Life
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Week Four Discussion
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Further reading: How to Write a Personal Essay for the New York Times
Week 5
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Craft: The Art of Detail: Significance, & Subtlety
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Audio - Process: Finding Your Way into Writing & Creating New Pathways
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Process: In Defense of Slow Writing
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Craft Video - Characterization: Introducing Your Protagonist (7:20)
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Video - The Writing Business: Submitting Your Work to Literary Magazines (12:13)
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Week Five Discussion
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Video - Writing Through the (Literal) Noise (2:34)
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Craft Video - Creating a Worthy Antagonist (7:46)
Week 6
Thank You and Next Steps
