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MasterClass – Amy Tan Teaches Fiction, Memory, and Imagination Download Now

Amy Tan was 33 before she first explored her voice as a fiction author. A few years later, her debut novel, The Joy Luck Club, spent 40 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. Now she’s showing you her approach to the challenges and joy of self-discovery through writing. Learn how to craft compelling beginnings and endings, find your voice, and embrace your emotional memory to bring powerful narratives to life.

14 video lessons (3h 12m)
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1. Meet Your Instructor: Amy Tan
Amy Tan, the bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club, welcomes you to her class by sharing what writing means to her and what she’ll be teaching you.
2. Finding Your Writing Voice
Amy explores the importance of a writer’s voice and invites you on an inner journey to find yours.
3. Memory, Truth, and Imagination
Amy walks you through her process of using emotional memory and real-life events to write fiction by sharing her own childhood memories.
4. Research and Observation
Get Amy’s tips on how to conduct research and find inspiration in observing the world around you.
5. Beginning Your Story
Amy believes the first pages of a story are the most important. Learn the key elements of a compelling beginning and how to grab your readers right from the start.
6. Narrative Point of View
Learn Amy’s process for choosing a narrative point of view—and why it’s not set in stone.
7. Character Development
Find out how to create complex, compelling, and authentic characters that will engage your readers.
8. Choosing the Right Words
Amy dives into her love of words and explains the importance of choosing each one carefully.
9. The Revision Process
Amy teaches you how to become your own best editor and to seek useful feedback from other writers.
10. Writing Companions
Write to your muse, talk to ghosts, and dialogue with your doppelgänger. Amy takes you into her creative underworld to teach you how to access yours.
11. Writer’s Block
Amy explains why you have writer’s block and how to get out of it.
12. Behind the Scenes: The Joy Luck Club Movie
Get Amy’s insider’s perspective on the adaptation of her bestselling book The Joy Luck Club into an award-winning film.
13. Amy’s Rejection Letters
Amy shares her rejection letters with you to show how she processes disappointment and carries on.
14. How to End Your Story