Writing Through the Wardrobe

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Writing Through the Wardrobe is a video-based self-study, made with the assumption that attentive readers can improve their own creative writing. Join Jonathan Rogers on a journey into the literary elements of Narnia. Admire the description, dialogue, concision and pacing of the classic The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The first of four products in the Creative Writing with Jonathan Rogers series.

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Supplemental Writing Exercises are included after each video lesson. Purchase of the course enables you to download a document containing all the exercises.

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Lesson 1: Narration and Point of View 2 Steps Sample Lesson

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Lesson 2: Inversion and Juxtaposition, Characterization 2 Steps Sample Lesson

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Lesson 3: Showing and Telling, Description 2 Steps

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Lesson 4: Dramatic Irony 2 Steps

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Lesson 5: Exposition 2 Steps

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Lesson 6: Some Guidelines for Dialogue 2 Steps

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Lesson 7: More on Dialogue and Characterization 2 Steps

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Lesson 8: Description and Figurative Language 2 Steps

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Lesson 9: Desire, Choice, Consequence 2 Steps

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Lesson 10: Concision 2 Steps

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Lesson 11: More on Figurative Language 2 Steps

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Lesson 12: Symbolism 2 Steps

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Lesson 13: Character-Driven Action 2 Steps

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Lesson 14: World-Building 2 Steps

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Lesson 15: Action and Motion 2 Steps

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Lesson 16: Allegory 2 Steps

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Lesson 17: Slowing Down 2 Steps

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Lesson 18: Abundance 2 Steps

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About Instructor

Jonathan Rogers, PhD

Jonathan Rogers is the author of The Terrible Speed of Mercy, one of the finest biographies of Flannery O’Connor we’ve ever read. His other books include the Wilderking Trilogy–The Bark of the Bog Owl, The Secret of the Swamp King, and The Way of the Wilderking–as well as The World According to Narnia and a biography of Saint Patrick. He has spent most of his adult life in Nashville, Tennessee, where he and his wife Lou Alice are raising a houseful of robustious children. He is featured in Grammar for Writers and Creative Writing.

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Writing Through the Wardrobe

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