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"Not all good writers are good teachers, but Daniel David Wallace (a talented, thoughtful writer himself) is a terrific instructor. Daniel is attentive to plot, structure, character, and other high-level narrative elements, but you’ll appreciate his ability to zoom in closely on language and sentence-level concerns. If you can take a class with him, do it!"
Julia Brown
editor and literary author

"Daniel respected my work and vision on a profound level, but also had a keen editorial eye and a stroke of literary genius that took everything I’d written to the next level. Is it weird that I think of him as my literary midwife?"

Tawni Waters,
I.L.A. award-winning author

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    Fundamentals of Fiction$137

    Why it will be great
    In this live class, I'll teach five sessions on the essentials of writing fiction. 

     This class is intended to fill out, begin, or develop your understanding of the craft. My goal is to be simple, clear, and concrete, showing you how to apply the techniques to your own writing and how to check if you are "doing it right."

    Each live session in the class will be a talk from me about one big area of craft. The goal is be to give you, over the weeks of the class, a broad education in the craft of fiction. In each topic, I would try to teach 3 or 4 useful ideas that you could put to work in your own writing. And you'll be able to discuss the ideas with your fellow students in our private discussion forum. Five sessions will not be enough to cover everything, of course, but it will be a startling and transformative guide to the study of the novel. And if enough people wish, we could meet again later for another five topics.
    The topics for the five sessions will be:
    We will meet five times, at 1pm US east coast time on Thursdays:
    • The many styles of Third-person POV Narration: March 7th, 1pm on Thursday (NYC time) 
    •  The truth about Show Don't Tell: March 21st, 1pm on Thursday (NYC time) 
    •  Plot: unity and repetition: April 4th, 1pm on Thursday (NYC time) 
    •  How to work with exposition and backstory: April 11th, 1pm on Thursday (NYC time) 
    •  Do all characters need to be "round": May 2nd, 1pm on Thursday (NYC time)

    Your Teacher

    Daniel Wallace
    Novelist, Teacher, & PhD researcher

    Hi, I'm Daniel. I'm a writer, teacher, PhD researcher, and book editor. I create easy-to-implement techniques that help you master the craft of fiction. 

     I've given lectures on plot at the AWP conference and other writing festivals around the US, and my work has been read at the Iowa Writers Workshop. My fiction has won the Hodges prize, the Toni Brown scholarship, and I've published short stories and essays in many journals. In my regular life, I teach advanced writing skills at a great university.
     
    Since I started teaching online, I've worked with hundreds of writers as a coach and teacher. Over six-thousand writers subscriber to my newsletter, "Writing Related."

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