Days 1–8: The Will to Write
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1. Meet Your Writing Guide (2:50)
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2. Why Do You Write?
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Exercise: Find Your Motivation
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3. What’s Stopping You From Writing?
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Exercises: Identify the Obstacles
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4. Finding Inspiration in the Every Day
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Exercises: Out and About
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5. Why Encouraging Creativity is So Important
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Exercise: Music
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6. How to Avoid Procrastination
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Exercise: Self-reflection
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7. Take the Pressure Off
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Exercise: The Worst Thing
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8. End of Part 1 (1:29)
Days 9–17: Building Character
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9. Memorable Characters (3:05)
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Exercise: Identification
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10. Building a Character from Scratch
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Exercise: Reading
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11. Why Well-Rounded Characters Are Important
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Exercise: Portraits
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12. Backstory
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Exercise: Crafting a Backstory
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13. Giving Your Character Physicality
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Exercise: Describe Your Character
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14. Dialogue—It’s Often Overlooked (1:09)
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Exercise: Literary Conversations
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15. Dialogue—How to Draw Inspiration
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Exercise: Overheard
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16. Internal Thoughts and How They Can Be Expressed
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Exercise: Confrontations
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17. End of Part 2 (1:24)
Day 18–25: Plot & Setting
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18. Driving Forces of Character and Plot (1:09)
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Exercise: Motivation
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19. What Does Your Character Want?
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20. Conflict and Tension
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Exercise: Gazebo
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21. Merging Conflict, Your Character’s Nature and Plot (1:56)
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Exercise: Plot
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22. Creating Place
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Exercise: Literary Places
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23. Bringing Place to Life—IRL
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Exercise: Reflections
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24. Bring Place to Life—from the Imagination
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Exercise: Visual Prompt
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25. Reviewing Your Work So Far—Techniques
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End of Part 3: Revision (2:01)
Days 26–30: Beyond the Boot Camp
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