One of my prouder achievements on this site was the publishing of twelve completely free lessons on creative writing. My purpose was pedagogic: I must have read more than a hundred books on writing and I was trying to consolidate what I learned. While I work on fixing the back end of the website, here are all twelve lessons: click on the link, I’ll respond if comment when you complete the exercises, and I hope you learn as much as I did!
Creative Writing Lesson 1: Writing Ugly
Creative Writing Lesson 2: Wound your Protagonist
Creative Writing Lesson 3: The Villain is a Person Too!
Creative Writing Lesson 4: Conflict, Conflict, Conflict
Creative Writing Lesson 5: Conflict, action, resolution, transition
Creative Writing Lesson 5: How do you know you have a conflict?
Creative Writing Lesson 6: The Flaw must drive the Action
Creative Writing Lesson 7: Resolving the Conflict
Creative Writing Lesson 8: Transitions
Creative Writing Lesson 9: Showing and Telling
Creative Writing Lesson 10: Self-Editing
Creative Writing Lesson 11: Happiness is Boring (and this is how you use it)
Creative Writing Lesson 12: Emotion is the Engine of Fiction
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