Curriculum
- 5 Sections
- 20 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Module 1: The Five Passes Mapped (Structure → Scene → Line → Voice → Polish)Week one is the overview. We cover the five passes in order, the specific job of each, and the form-specific adaptations (the model works for fiction, memoir, nonfiction, blogs, and screenplays with s6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Current Over-Editing Pattern?4 Questions
- 1.3Meditation: Mapping the Passes (a Slow Audio, Use Once Per Project)11
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: The Draft I Edited For Two Years That Got Worse Every Time (And the Five-Pass Reset That Finally Worked)15
- 1.6Companion Blog: You’re Doing All Five Editing Passes At Once. That’s Why Nothing’s Working.10
- Module 2: The Structure Pass (the Architecture Check)Week two is the Structure Pass. This pass looks ONLY at the architecture — what scenes exist, in what order, with what causal links, with what arc. You ignore prose. You ignore voice. You ignore typos6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Specific Structure Pass Resistance?3 Questions
- 2.3Meditation: The Structure-Only Audio (Use Before Each Structure Block)8
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: The Structure Pass That Took Three Days and Fixed Six Months of Prose Polish15
- 2.6Companion Blog: Do a Structure Pass First. Everything Else You’re Editing Is Wasted Until You Do.10
- Module 3: The Scene Pass and the Line Pass (Working Inside the Bones)Week three covers passes two and three. The Scene Pass examines each scene as a unit — does it function, does it earn its place, does it advance the architecture you set in pass one. The Line Pass exa6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: Which of the Two Passes Tempts YOU to Slip Into the Other?3 Questions
- 3.3Meditation: The Two-Pass Audio (Separate Anchors for Each)8
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: The Scene I Cut After Three Years of Line-Editing It (And the Draft That Survived)15
- 3.6Companion Blog: Scene Pass and Line Pass Are Different Sports. Stop Playing Both at Once.10
- Module 4: The Voice Pass and the Polish Pass (the Last Two Levels)Week four covers the final two passes. The Voice Pass listens for consistency, distinctness, and authority — does the prose sound like the same writer throughout, does the voice carry through. The Pol6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: Where Will YOUR Polish Pass Try to Live Forever?3 Questions
- 4.3Meditation: The Polish Closing Audio (Use When the Polish Block Ends)10
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: The Day My Polish Pass Ended (and the Book Went to My Agent)15
- 4.6Companion Blog: Polish Has a Deadline. The Deadline Is Not Negotiable. Sign It.10
- Module 5: The Personal Five-Pass System (Documented + Customized)Final week. You'll compile your Personal Five-Pass System — a one-page reference holding YOUR pass cadence, YOUR form-specific adaptations, YOUR five checklists with personalized stop signs, YOUR Poli6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What Will YOUR System Need in Three Years?2 Questions
- 5.3Meditation: Closing Audio: The System Is Yours12
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: Twelve Years of the Five-Pass System (And What Each Project Taught the System Back)15
- 5.6Companion Blog: Build a Five-Pass Editing System. Use It on Every Project Forever.10