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Heat. Heat.

For the last five years, I've been

teaching

at Bard College as professor of the

arts. And each year, I get to teach a

total of about 24 25 26 students. I love

the teaching process. I love getting to

work with students. I love getting to

show people ways to write, show them how

to get deeper, how to learn. It's an

absolute delight to me. But you don't

get to reach a lot of people. The joy of

doing something like Masterclass

is going, "Well, I can say the same

things that I would say to them to

millions of people because I know that

there are millions of people out there

who want to write because they come to

me and they ask me and they tell me and

they ask questions and I try and answer

those questions on Tumblr, on Twitter,

on my blog." Um, but this just seems

like an incredibly efficient way to just

say everything that I have to say to

everybody. What I'm trying to do in this

class,

and I am going to mix my metaphors

outrageously here,

is I want to teach you first of all

how to find the tool shed. I want to

take you down to the tool shed and I

want to show you some of the tools that

are hanging on the walls of a writer's

tool shed and I want to show you what

that's for and say that thing there,

that's a dber and that's a hoe and

that's a spade and that's a shovel and

you use them all for different things.

But I also want to show you where the

pitfalls are. Some of the Yeah, don't do

that because if you do that it'll all

just stop. So, I want to take you into a

lot of the nuts and the bolts and the

hose and the dbers and the mouse traps

and the doomsday devices. And I want to

walk you through that safely and have

you coming out of that gloriously

garbled mess of metaphor with actually a

rather better idea of how to write than

you had when you started. In my class,

I'm going to tell you that stories are

important. I'm going to tell you what

stories are. And then I'm going to tell

you how to build them, how to make

stories, how to make stories that

matter.

And I'm going to give you some tips. I'm

going to give you some exercises.

And most of all, I'm going to give you a

little push forward that you might not

have had. Hello, I'm Neil Gaiman and

this is my master class.