Lessons 1-3

Lesson 1: Scene-Setting and the Inciting Incident

Lesson 2: Dialogue

Lesson 3: Travel Writing

Lessons 4-6

Lesson 4: Narration and Point of View

Lesson 5: Grammar and Sentence Structure

Lesson 6: Creating Distinct Voices

Lessons 7-9

Lesson 7: Some Thoughts About Plot

Lesson 8: Freytag's Pyramid

Lesson 9: Character Development

Lessons 10-12

Lesson 10: Creating Problems, Solving Problems

Lesson 11: Managing the Reader's Attention

Lesson 12: Choosing to Tell Rather than Show

Lessons 13-15

Lesson 13: Conversational Dynamics, Part 1

Lesson 14: Conversational Dynamics, Part 2

Lesson 15: Some Thoughts about Description

Lessons 16-17

Lesson 16: From Rising Action to Crisis

Lesson 17: Disordered Loves, Reordered Loves

Lesson 10: Creating Problems, Solving Problems

Writing Exercise

List five times in The Hobbit when Bilbo gets lucky. For each of those instances, how does Tolkien complete that lucky break with Bilbo’s skill, ingenuity, or good judgment?