July 8 - 14 2026
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How this sale helps you - and the next writer!
1. One course is on sale as a time
- Each course is available for 48 hours, then retires from the sale.
2. Price increases as more people buy
- Each course has a starting price
- Every 20 purchases raises the current course’s price by $10
- Each course has a set maximum price
3. Each purchase lowers the next course’s starting price
- Each time someone buys a course, the starting price of the next offer drops by $1
Today's deal
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pLot Camera
What it is — A course on point of view and storytelling — and on the idea that your POV decisions and your plot decisions are really the same decision. Plot Camera goes beyond "first person or third person" to explore what happens after you choose. Includes 30+ lessons, a diagnostic workbook for your own manuscript, and a custom AI course companion.
Who it's for — Writers who have the feeling that their scenes aren't landing the way they want — that the reader isn't quite inside the experience. Writers who have chosen a POV but aren't sure they're using it fully.
What you'll learn — How to decide which scenes belong in your story and which are backstory you needed to discover for yourself. How to control the reader's emotional distance from your character, scene by scene. Why "show don't tell" might be the most misunderstood advice in fiction — and what it actually means for your prose.
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Plotting and Planning Your Novel
What it is —> the famous writing course that teaches character-first writing, the ABC plot, and much much more. You'll gain access to dozens of lessons, written craft mini-essays, interactive prompts, worksheets and manuals. "Character first writing" is an approach that works for all kinds of stories and styles -- because it helps you construct a story that fits how people actually read -- and because it helps you get back to that original vision and dream that inspired your current manuscript.
Who is it for —> This course has brought joy, insight, and relief to writers in a dazzling range of genres and schools. Writers talk about shocking discoveries in the first hour inside the course; others consider the course a turning point in their careers. This course has made a difference to the writing of NYT bestselling authors, professional series creators, graduates of prestigious MFA programs, and a huge number of stuck first-time writers. Just want to finish that book? This course is designed to give you quick plotting wins within the first day, the first week, and the first month after you sign up.
Why people love it —> My goal is not just to give you concrete, realistic, valuable plot advice: I am hoping to re-wire how your brain composes stories. Get back to the love of writing you had all along and turn your story visions into the best possible novels you can write. See how to make your story flow and develop -- and when you buy the course, you pay once get ongoing access to all future improvements and expansions. Many course owners have been receiving bonus content for years now!
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Revision that makes a difference
What it is —> Rescue your book. This is the "get the story completed" course for the tired drafter — for when you have a draft and need to revise it without getting mired in endless small edits or losing the book you meant to write. In Daniel's words: "you'll be able to see your work with new eyes and remake it with confidence." The whole course is built around a single question — how can the reader better access your story — and every framework and exercise is a different way of answering it.
testimonials
Writers like you love these classes

Elizabeth R. Alix
Author of Maple Hill Chronicles

Tannis Laidlaw
Mystery Writer

Quenntis Ashby
Urban Fantasy Writer
"Not all good writers are good teachers, but Daniel David Wallace (a talented, thoughtful writer himself) is a terrific instructor.
Daniel is attentive to plot, structure, character, and other high-level narrative elements, but you’ll appreciate his ability to zoom in closely on language and sentence-level concerns.
If you can take a class with him, do it!"
- Julia Brown, editor and literary author
"With Daniel's scene instruction workshop, I was able to write more quickly and competently.
I wish I had taken a class like this sooner. I would've been a better novelist and my short story production would've been much larger."
- John Vurro
Meet Daniel
I'm Daniel David Wallace, an award-winning writer and teacher. I spent four years of a PhD researching new ways to help writers like you tell a great story.
My stories, reviews, and essays have been published in great magazines like Tampa Review, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Air Schooner, and my writing won me awards like the Toni Brown scholarship and the Hodges prizes.
But when I sent my first novel to the big publishing houses, it was rejected. This was a tough experience! And so I designed a way of teaching storytelling that the younger me would have wanted to find, the "character-first" approach.
I'm grateful that this approach has resonated with so many people: 12,000 writers read my newsletter each week and every year I host three conferences on the craft of writing.

