I have many of James Scott Bell's nonfiction works on writing craft. This course pulls the important nuggets from many of those other materials into one course (idea development, characters, plots, dialogue, the middle, etc). The 264pg pdf downloadable pdf follows the course material well. If an author were to religiously follow all of the teachings in this course, they would be well on the way to a successful writing career. I listened to this over a couple days, and will definitely listen to it multiple times for reinforcement.