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"Number eight of Substack’s top 20 Creative Writing Sites. Flight School is like learning from a bestselling writer in action - rich and deep, for those…
Jan 30, 2022
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Jennifer Lauck
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Fathers, Freedom, and False Friends
Listen now | The forces that shape Huck Finn's journey | Does your protagonist face different forms of the same opposition as they grow? How might the…
Dec 11, 2025
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Jennifer Lauck
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From Banned Book to Literary Classic: The Power of Authentic Voice
Watch now | Huck Finn revisited, the power of plot and a conversation with a writer who's read the book 30+times. A terrific conversation with a…
Nov 13, 2025
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Jennifer Lauck
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Proof of Concept: When a Writer Does the Work
Watch now | What's possible when craft teaching lands on fertile ground. A retired family physician with thirty-five years of patient relationships and…
Oct 15, 2025
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Flannery O'Connor's Pig Parlor Prophecy: When Smugness Meets Its Mirror
Listen now | A waiting room scene transforms into a masterclass on character development through social positioning
Sep 28, 2025
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A Pathological Push into Publication
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Write Like You're About to Die
Dec 10, 2023
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The Lost Art of Scene Writing
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Fathers, Freedom, and False Friends
Listen now | The forces that shape Huck Finn's journey | Does your protagonist face different forms of the same opposition as they grow? How might the…
Dec 11, 2025
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Jennifer Lauck
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16:59
From Banned Book to Literary Classic: The Power of Authentic Voice
Watch now | Huck Finn revisited, the power of plot and a conversation with a writer who's read the book 30+times. A terrific conversation with a…
Nov 13, 2025
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Jennifer Lauck
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20:19
Proof of Concept: When a Writer Does the Work
Watch now | What's possible when craft teaching lands on fertile ground. A retired family physician with thirty-five years of patient relationships and…
Oct 15, 2025
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If You're Not Interesting? Who is?
The Surge challenge launches into the big questions of finding enough time, managing perfectionism, and discovering relevance
Jun 8, 2025
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Jennifer Lauck
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The 20K Breakthrough: Six Weeks to Story Discovery
January's True Beginning: Where Words Take Flight. Welcome to Flight School's most transformative challenge yet: six weeks to discover if your story has…
Jan 11, 2025
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🐦⬛ Spent 20 years failing at novels until I cracked the code. Now I teach the map: scene by scene, the craft that actually works. 🐦⬛
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