Curriculum
- 6 Sections
- 24 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Module 1: The Three Questions (the Decision Protocol)Week one introduces the three questions every important moment in a draft should pass through: (1) Does this moment generate or test something? (2) Does the reader need to be present, or just informed6
- 1.1Module 1: Overview20
- 1.2Mindset Maven Test: Which of the Three Questions Do YOU Most Routinely Skip?2 Questions
- 1.3Meditation: The Three-Question Audio (Run the Protocol on Practice Moments)12
- 1.4Writing Prompt: Module 130
- 1.5INSPIRATION: The Moment I First Ran the Three Questions and Changed a Six-Year-Old Decision15
- 1.6Companion Blog: Three Questions That Make the Scene-vs-Summary Decision in Five Seconds.10
- Module 2: The Generate-or-Test Question (the Hardest of the Three)Week two deepens the first question — does this moment generate or test something? Generation: the moment creates new information, energy, character revelation, plot pressure. Testing: the moment puts6
- 2.1Module 2: Overview20
- 2.2Mindset Maven Test: Are YOUR Default Scenes Generating, Testing, or Drifting?2 Questions
- 2.3Meditation: The Generate-Test Audit Audio11
- 2.4Writing Prompt: Module 230
- 2.5INSPIRATION: The Forty Drift Moments I Found in a Draft I Was Sure Was Tight15
- 2.6Companion Blog: Every Scene Should Generate or Test. Scenes That Drift Get Cut.10
- Module 3: The Present-or-Informed Question (Trust the Reader)Week three deepens the second question — does the reader need to be PRESENT for this moment, or just informed about it? Presence is dramatization. Information is summary. The decision depends on wheth6
- 3.1Module 3: Overview20
- 3.2Mindset Maven Test: Are YOU Over-Demanding Reader Presence?2 Questions
- 3.3Meditation: The Trust-the-Reader Audio11
- 3.4Writing Prompt: Module 330
- 3.5INSPIRATION: The Scenes I Compressed When I Learned to Trust the Reader15
- 3.6Companion Blog: Most Drafts Over-Demand Reader Presence. Trust the Reader. Compress More.10
- Module 4: The Cost-Earning Question (Length Economics)Week four deepens the third question — does the scene's cost in length earn its narrative cost? Every scene takes reader time. The narrative cost is the energy / emotional / structural value it delive6
- 4.1Module 4: Overview20
- 4.2Mindset Maven Test: Which Scenes in YOUR Draft Aren’t Earning Their Length?2 Questions
- 4.3Meditation: The Cost-Earning Audit Audio12
- 4.4Writing Prompt: Module 430
- 4.5INSPIRATION: The Cost-Earning Audit That Cut Sixty Pages Without Cutting Story15
- 4.6Companion Blog: Every Scene Earns or Costs the Reader’s Attention. Audit Yours.10
- Module 5: The Editor's Track (Using This Framework on Manuscripts)Week five is for editors and writers who edit. We cover how to use the three-question framework as a developmental edit tool — running the protocol on a client's manuscript, identifying the scenes tha6
- 5.1Module 5: Overview20
- 5.2Mindset Maven Test: What’s YOUR Specific Editorial Resistance to Recommending Cuts?2 Questions
- 5.3Meditation: The Edit-Letter Audio (Write the Recommendation)11
- 5.4Writing Prompt: Module 530
- 5.5INSPIRATION: The Manuscript I Edited Using the Framework (and the Author Who Asked Where I’d Learned It)15
- 5.6Companion Blog: Developmental Editors: Use This Framework. It Will Save Your Authors a Draft of Revision.10
- Module 6: The Lifetime Decision Practice (the Capstone Document)Final week. You'll compile your Personal Scene-vs-Summary Practice — a one-page reference holding YOUR three-question protocol, YOUR default-bias correction, YOUR audit cadence, YOUR communication lan6
- 6.1Module 6: Overview20
- 6.2Mindset Maven Test: What Will YOUR Practice Need in Five Years?2 Questions
- 6.3Meditation: Closing Audio: The Personal Practice Document15
- 6.4Writing Prompt: Module 630
- 6.5INSPIRATION: Twelve Years of the Decision Practice (and the Drafts That Earned Their Length)15
- 6.6Companion Blog: Build a Scene-vs-Summary Practice. Run the Three Questions Forever. Compound the Skill.10
INSPIRATION: Twelve Years of the Decision Practice (and the Drafts That Earned Their Length)
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