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Margaret Atwood - MasterClass
Margaret Atwood - MasterClass
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LESSON PLAN
01 Introduction
Meet your new instructor: Man Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood. In your first lesson, Margaret
shares her perspective on the art of writing and who ultimately gives your book its meaning.
10 Crafting Dialogue
Margaret teaches how to use dialogue to reveal character and story, and discusses the importance of making
your dialogue authentic to the time and place in which your narrative transpires.
14 The Door to Your Book: The Importance of the First Five Pages
From Melville to Dickens, Margaret shares some of her favorite opening lines and underscores the value of
making your first five pages utterly compelling.
18 Speculative Fiction
Learn Margarets approach to writing speculative fiction and her advice on how to generate ideas and build your
world in this genre.
23 Parting Words
Margaret bids her students farewell, sharing her desire to pass on her wisdom to the next generation of writers.