Punch them in the Gut: Writing Fiction with Emotional Impact


25 Lessons

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Lesson 1 The History and Power of Story

Lesson 2 Empathy

Lesson 3 The Language of Story

Lesson 4 The Science of Reading

Writing Assignment 1 The Stories of Your Life

Lesson 5 Be THE Professional

Lesson 6 Elements of Story

Lesson 7 Finding Your Reader

Lesson 8 Reader vs. Genre

Lesson 9 Creating the Outer Problem

Lesson 10 The Last Chosen Emotion

Lesson 11 The Protagonist

Lesson 12 Inner Conflict

Lesson 13 Required Resolution

Lesson 14 Required Resolution: What You Must Resolve and Cliffhangers

What is Story: Past or Present

What Story Do You Want to Tell?

Writing Assignment 2: The 3 Ps Game

The Protagonist

The Outer Problem

The Inner Problem

The Resolution

Research Bibliography

What Genre Readers Want

Resources