Teaches Fiction, Memory, and Imagination

Amy Tan

Amy Tan Teaches Fiction, Memory, and Imagination

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.

1. Meet Your Instructor: Amy Tan

Meet Your Instructor: Amy Tan

Amy explores the importance of a writer’s voice and invites you on an inner journey to find yours.

2. Finding Your Writing Voice

Finding Your Writing Voice

Amy walks you through her process of using emotional memory and real-life events to write fiction by sharing her own childhood memories.

3. Memory, Truth, and Imagination

Memory, Truth, and Imagination

Get Amy’s tips on how to conduct research and find inspiration in observing the world around you.

4. Research and Observation

Research and Observation

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.

5. Beginning Your Story

Beginning Your Story

Learn Amy’s process for choosing a narrative point of view—and why it’s not set in stone.

6. Narrative Point of View

Narrative Point of View

Find out how to create complex, compelling, and authentic characters that will engage your readers.

7. Character Development

Character Development

Amy dives into her love of words and explains the importance of choosing each one carefully.

8. Choosing the Right Words

Choosing the Right Words

Amy teaches you how to become your own best editor and to seek useful feedback from other writers.

9. The Revision Process

The Revision Process

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.

10. Writing Companions

Writing Companions

Amy explains why you have writer’s block and how to get out of it.

11. Writer’s Block

Writer’s Block

Get Amy’s insider’s perspective on the adaptation of her bestselling book The Joy Luck Club into an award-winning film.

12. Behind the Scenes: The Joy Luck Club Movie

Behind the Scenes: The Joy Luck Club Movie

Amy shares her rejection letters with you to show how she processes disappointment and carries on.

13. Amy’s Rejection Letters

Amy’s Rejection Letters

Learn how to craft an engaging and satisfying ending that will keep readers looking forward to the sequel.

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