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Lesson Six: A Note on Style

Show don鈥檛 tell. Well, no, actually 鈥� show AND tell.

• 10 mins

Lesson Seven: Routines and Rituals

Yes, we need talent 鈥� but we also need discipline.

• 9 mins

Lesson Eight: The Writer鈥檚 Mind

The subconscious mind can be the writer鈥檚 greatest helper 鈥� or nastiest foe.

• 9 mins

Lesson Nine: Keep Human

This lesson exalts the importance of time off.

• 10 mins

Lesson Ten: Find your Story

Waiting for the muse to strike? Give it up and get writing.

• 10 mins

Lesson Eleven: Listen Up!

If you want to write good dialogue, you need good ears.

• 8 mins

Lesson Twelve: A Workshop with Allen Ginsberg

How often do you get the chance to attend a lecture by one of the Beats?

• 9 mins

Lesson Thirteen: Place

On capturing the soul of a place in words.

• 10 mins

Lesson Fourteen: In Search of a Character with Graham Greene

Hear how Graham Greene gradually evolves a character.

• 8 mins

Lesson Fifteen: Write and Repeat

鈥淓asy reading is damned hard writing,鈥� says Maya Angelou.

• 10 mins

Lesson Sixteen: Dealing with Critics

If you鈥檙e going to put your work out in the world, someone鈥檚 going to take a pop at it.

• 10 mins

Lesson Seventeen: What I Learned from James Baldwin

Novelist Caryl Phillips considers what we can learn from the great American writer.

• 9 mins

Lesson Eighteen: Writer鈥檚 Block

Discover Ray Bradbury鈥檚 simple trick for overcoming writer鈥檚 block.

• 9 mins