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#39: Enlivening Dialogue with Telling Action
Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Keaton, Gene Hackman, Iron Man, Thor, Julia Armfield.
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Mar 1
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February 2023
#38: The Protagonist Trap
Brian Evenson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alyssa Songsiridej, Danya Kukafka, Annie Ernaux.
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Feb 1
22
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January 2023
#37: Chapter Beginnings (and Transitions)
Meg Howrey, Torrey Peters, S.A. Cosby, Victor LaValle, Julia May Jonas, Sam Lipsyte, Tom Robbins, Ann Hood.
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Jan 5
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December 2022
#36: No Failure, Only Practice
Gordon Lish, Hilary Mantel, Bonnie Nadzam, Matthew Salesses, Jane Smiley, Melissa Febos, Montesquieu
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Dec 1, 2022
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October 2022
Exercise #35: Entry, Transition, Exploration
Portal Fantasy, C.S. Lewis, Alix E. Harrow, Karen Russell, Alan Moore, Seth Dickinson, Stephen King, Peter Straub.
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Oct 4, 2022
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September 2022
Exercise #34: The Annotated Debut
Stephen King, Megan Giddings, Jonathan Franzen, Douglas Adams
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Sep 2, 2022
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August 2022
Exercise #33: Writing Physical Action with Embodied Perception and Consecution
Brian Evenson, Cormac McCarthy, Garth Greenwell, James Clavell, Elvia Wilk, Norman Lock, Yan Ge
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Aug 3, 2022
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July 2022
Exercise #32: Four Scenes About Power
Pitchaya Sudbanthad, Eugene Marten, Arkady Martine, Chris Gonzalez, Bojan Louis, Daniel José Older.
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Jul 5, 2022
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June 2022
Exercise #31: How to Not Stop Saying the Thing You Shouldn't Say
Chris Bachelder, Robert Boswell, Nicola Griffith, Adrienne Celt, Eugene Marten, Arkady Martine.
Matt Bell
Jun 1, 2022
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May 2022
Exercise #30: The Novel-Shaped Story II
Antoine Wilson, C.L. Clark, Jesse Ball, Blake Snyder, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jennifer Schuessler
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May 1, 2022
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April 2022
Exercise #29: The First-Person Plural
Ayşe Papatya Bucak, Seth Fried, Shirley Jackson, John Gardner, Isaac Butler, Solmaz Sharif, Melissa Febos.
Matt Bell
Apr 1, 2022
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March 2022
REFUSE TO BE DONE Launch Day! / Exercise #28: Mapping the First Draft
Jane Alison, Matthew Salesses, Blake Snyder, Philip Gerard, Ann Leckie, Alix E. Harrow, N.K. Jemisin, David Mitchell, Lance Olsen, Mark Twain, Cormac…
Matt Bell
Mar 8, 2022
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