Paul Wolfe (aka Paul T Wolfe)

Lessons from Ben Franklin's Writing Improvement System: 1. Identify area to work on. 2. Devise practice exercises. 3. Multiple repetitions of those exercises. 4. Feedback systems. 5. Do the work. Also note what he didn't do. 👇

@orsonscottcard @iSamw1se Can't wait to check it out! (And been waiting for MASTER ALVIN for 20 years!!!)

Good talking to you @iSamw1se

@goto This is the 3rd day of posting screenshots of webinars I've been spam added to for GoToWebinar. Here's tuesdayy's spammer of the day:

And here's the second @GoTo Before you tell me to cancel my account...I've already wasted over an hour going through the hoops that you set up only to be told I cant cancel because I have active registrations. (Which I never signed up for)

@goto This is the 2nd day of posting screenshots of webinars I've been spam added to for GoToWebinar. Two screenshots to post today of spam webinars I've been signed up for. Here's teh first:

Every day I get spam registrations from Go To Webinar @GoTo for webinars. Despite contacting customer support...they can't delete my account to stop this. So I'm going to screen shot the spam webinars every day and tag them until they contact me and stop this.

You know the common story models out there...like Hero's Journey, Save the Cat, Three Act Structure etc...you might not know Erle Stanley Gardner's 9 Step Story Model. Check it out...maybe it's the one for you: youtu.be/qsq28QZAuug

The 2nd Best Piece Of (Fiction) Writing Advice I found In 2025 (h/t to William Goldman) youtu.be/6zF4QgPdow4

The Best Writing Advice I Found In 2025 (h/t to Brandon Sanderson) youtube.com/watch?v=no1fvW…

@Kristin_Fiction That's what the BLOCK button is for ;)

My least favorite comment: "I see you used a famous person/internet personality as your clickbait/jumping off point for an article/video that is not about that person. Here is 7 paragraphs about how much I hate that person and zero words about what you wrote/spoke about."

Next in the series of video articles looking at the 5 Levels of a novel as codified/taught by Gary Provost. This is the third level - which is Scenes: youtube.com/watch?v=yW9-IH…

Here's my latest video article with more details and my thoughts on the usefulness of sequences for outlining long form fiction. Also could be the 2nd part of your revision pass on a finished story: youtube.com/watch?v=plIDAD…

Gary Provost is the only fiction writing teacher (to my knowledge) to talk about sequences. Though this is a more common subject in screenwriting....see Paul Gulino's book. Or maybe Chris Soth's. For Gary it was the 2nd level of his 5 level building blocks of the novel.👇👇👇

Each of the 5 levels will also get a detailed video article of their own...here's the article on LEVEL 1 - THE 8 POINT STRUCTURAL SPINE: youtube.com/watch?v=7_g2R1…

...until then, here's an overview video article to set the scene: youtu.be/OHgPbgzRc3A

The best Masterclass/Maestro style course for "beginner" fiction writers is - IMO - Gary Provost's Novel Writing Workshop. To outline/create a novel, Gary suggests viewing the novel in 5 distinct levels. I'll be posting video articles on each distinct level this week 👇👇👇

A beginner writer emailed me a few weeks ago and asked me what I thought the best Masterclass/Maestro style writing course was. You can listen to my answer here: youtube.com/watch?v=TcZBTe…

And here's more detail on each step in the minimum viable Hero's Journey: youtube.com/watch?v=7dDTw5…

Here's the first video article on Chris Vogler's idea of the minimum viable Hero's Journey - which I call the 5 Step Hero's Journey: youtube.com/watch?v=Gdu-sX…

I just posted a 5 Step/Minmimum Viable Hero's Journey Analysis - which is for short form content - for Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery. You can check that out here: youtube.com/watch?v=pHYiOw…