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 17: Disordered Loves, Reordered Loves

Writing Exercise

Disordered loves and reordered love provide us with a way of talking about any story. Think of one of your favorite stories (movies count) and answer these questions:

How do disordered loves contribute to the rising action of the story? In other words, how do disordered loves complicate things and contribute to disequilibrium?
In the course of the story, how do those disordered loves get reordered?