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Lesson Library (Page 2)

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I’m pleased to announce that the AWS mission is getting
more specialized this year. The lesson library is taking a new
direction, embracing a new ethos. Lessons about fiction craft
topics such as point of view and character will be phased out.
New lesson content will take on a new focus, and that is instruct-
ion and guidance around:
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+ the fiction writer having a compassionate, humanitarian regard
for their characters
+ the disarmament of literary art in “the cultural wars”
+ fostering the evolution of literary art out of its old modes
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If literature could heal the world, it would have done so by now,
with 8 million self-published titles a year. We need works that
depolarize and work to break our addiction to narratives that further
entrench us in our bubble-formed beliefs.
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In short, the lesson library will be doubling down on the AWS
concept. We’ll use its central premise, that I am campaigning
to get Aspiring Writer Syndrome into the DSM, as a model for
fictional art itself. This playful falsehood gives writers a lens into
into their motives for writing, and illuminates a path out of
aggrandizement, of self and of our comfortable points of view.
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Big, right?

Truisms in Narrative — With Don DeLillo

The truism broadens the perspective of the story, and can in effect widen its themes.Read

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