I write books.
And I show you how I do it.
Let's be real: the only way to truly learn how to write a book is to write a book. No theory, formula, course, or otherwise can take the place of just...writing.
But through nerdy analysis, story theory, and documentation of my own process, I hope to pair you * See, sommelier! with tools to start, finish, revise, revise again, revise, revise, revise, (throw book at wall, retrieve book from floor, repaint wall) your story into the strongest it can be.
If I could take Past Me out to lunch, this 4-hour mini course is everything I would tell her about writing an opening that hooks readers (and, um, agents).
For less than the cost of lunch, we use recent bestsellers as our guide to write an opening that demands to be read.
Even if it's a prologue.*Preplexingly, there's a subset of readers that skip all prologues.
This weekly newsletter alternates between in-the-weeds real-time reporting on my own writing process and in-depth analyses of popular books, TV shows and movies.
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