Writing with the Bog Owl

Age: 13+ Middle School, High School 1/8th Credit

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Writing with the Bog Owl delivers the most authentic creative writing instruction possible—learning from a published author! Jonathan Rogers shares the influences on his own book, The Bark of the Bog Owl, and condenses his advanced studies of literature for readers young and old alike.

The fourth 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: Setting and Originality 2 Steps Sample Lesson

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Lesson 3: Bayard, Objectivity, Subjectivity 2 Steps

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Lesson 4: Where Did Feechiefolk Come From? 2 Steps

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Lesson 5: The Wilderking Chant 2 Steps

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Lesson 6: Writing In-Scene and Out-of-Scene 2 Steps

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Lesson 7: Incongruity 2 Steps

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Lesson 8: Into the Swamp 2 Steps

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Lesson 9: Among the Feechies 2 Steps

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Lesson 10: Moving Parts 2 Steps

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Lesson 11: Fishing Trip, Feechie Feast 2 Steps

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Lesson 12: Foreshadowing, Expectations 2 Steps

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Lesson 13: Judgment, Motive 2 Steps

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Lesson 14: Motivation 2 Steps

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Lesson 15: The False Peak 2 Steps

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Lesson 16: The Miner-Scouts 2 Steps

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Lesson 17: Narrative Layers 2 Steps

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Lesson 18: Climax, Falling Action, Resolution 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 with the Bog Owl

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Jonathan Rogers, PhD

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