Perfect Your Process 2025
Build the writing life you have always wanted. Learn from expert teachers how to write more effectively in this beloved four-day event: see why so many authors come back year after year!
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This will be a fantastic learning experience!
If writing were easy, everyone would do it!
But as you know, when you sit down to write, you discover that there are big and small questions that often leave you uncertain about how to proceed. And often the hardest part is just getting to the chair itself: normal life has a distressing ability to keep you away from your true calling -- writing!
This four-day training event aims to upgrade your full range of writing abilities to bear on the task at hand: your ability to stay confident and undistracted, to compose a great sentence, to recall the research you've done.
Our goal is to help you improve your drafting and revising skills, your consistency and enjoyment, your outlining and your planning -- so that you regularly accomplish more in all your future writing sessions.
What you'll get from this summit
How would your writing life look if you improved your essential, core skills by 10%?
Whether you are still working on your first book, or you're working hard to make the next one your break-out success, the best way you can improve your craft is by building a stronger writing process. You're about to learn from more than twenty successful authors and teachers, over more than twenty in-depth, carefully curated presentations.
Perfect Your Process is your expert training program, your four-day creative writing "degree."
The summit will run from Saturday March 22nd to Tuesday March 25th.
Each day of the event contains lessons on levelling-up your writing life, guiding you to create a better first draft, a better revision plan, a better weekly routine -- even a better relationship between your writing and the rest of your life.
From the previous summits
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All the resources were really useful and everyone was so warm and welcoming.
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The memories were pleasantly surprising and inspiring because it was explained from different perspectives.
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It feels great! Lots of different ideas!
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I appreciated the hour or two breaks between the presentations because most of us are multi-tasking. I did miss one morning so have to catch up. The Plot Pass made that worry free.
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You covered everything. From how to write a novel to how to publish it. Great context. Very well organized.
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The conference provided a wealth of useful and inspiring information. It was fantastic
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Hearing such a wide range of speakers talk about their craft with such passion. Listening to them gave me the enthusiasm and determination to keep going with the story I have lodged in my head.
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Awesome, incredible, organic, accepting. Without having to pull out the Thesaurus - it was great!
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This has been better than any Convention I've been to; better than my MFA program; better than most workshopping or retreats.
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The summit overall was terrific! The presenters were amazing!
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Not only did I learn new techniques for plotting, I also received affirmation on things I was already doing in my writing. This summit could be hard to top.
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This was a Plot Summit; you were clear on the theme and you absolutely met and exceeded my expectations.
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All the tips for making my writing better and all the "aha!" moments are the best part of the event.
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Amazing depth of content made available to a wide audience for free
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I love that it was basically divided into beginning, middle and end in terms of structuring a novel.
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The participation of the attendees and the range from beginners to published people. You have no idea how much this event changed my writing life.
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This summit was five days of targeted value. Each speaker delivered specific techniques for different aspects of plotting novels.
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I wanted to be a writer. This helped me answer my question, and it just cemented my dreams, it’s no longer a dream but an actual goal.
Secure Your Place Now
Early Bird Discount: All Access Pass
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Live Broadcasts and Replays
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All content available
Watch the full event whenever you want + get the event as a private podcast audio feed + book of transcripts + bonuses from speakers
Free live access
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Live Broadcasts and Replays
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All content available
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Valid for 1d 1h from live talks
Watch the entire event free -- as long as you watch live. After each talk has aired for 24 hours, it will be locked for people on the free pass. Upgrade to the paid pass at any time!
This four-day summit is 100% free to watch live. But you should also look at the paid pass!
This event is designed to be accessible to a wide range of writers. If you watch each session live, as it airs, you can attend completely for free. No catches. However, after 24 hours, each talk will lock for people on the free pass.
Pass buyers, on the other hand, can watch the replays as often and whenever they want.
So having the pass is the best way to attend this substantial, in-depth event, giving you the best possible benefit to your writing craft (because you can refer to the transcripts and watch the sessions you missed).
In addition, pass buyers will receive an assortment of bonuses from speakers, some of which usually sell, on their own, for more than the pass price: mini-courses, pdf guides, discounts, and additional mini-lessons.
Schedule of talks
Not sure what to watch? Here are some talks you won't want to miss.
Secure Your Place Now
Early Bird Discount: All Access Pass
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Live Broadcasts and Replays
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All content available
Watch the full event whenever you want + get the event as a private podcast audio feed + book of transcripts + bonuses from speakers
Free live access
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Live Broadcasts and Replays
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All content available
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Valid for 1d 1h from live talks
Watch the entire event free -- as long as you watch live. After each talk has aired for 24 hours, it will be locked for people on the free pass. Upgrade to the paid pass at any time!
Join one of the most supportive and welcoming communities around
These summits are not just great educational experiences. You'll also join a friendly, low-stress community of fellow writers. In these summits, we agree to support one another, to treat each other well, and to collaborate in the creation of fantastic sessions and interviews. The summit operates according to a firm code of conduct, both offering protection to you and offering speakers a welcoming space to deliver their presentations.
You can read the full code of conduct on this site (it is linked to above): part of my job as host is to steer the atmosphere and mood of the event, hour by hour, so that we stay positive, relaxed, and receptive.
In addition, as your host, you'll see me accept prompts from the speakers, reveal a few of my own writing insecurities and fears: rather than standing above the event, dispensing advice from up high, my goal is to ask the questions you want asked, to prompt the speakers to explain their ideas in even more detail. I am working through some of the same issues that you are in my writing, and, as you'll see, I have found creating this event to be very moving and inspiring for my own creative life.
Say Hello To Our Speakers
We couldn't be more excited about our lineup. Which talks will you be checking out?
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Your Host
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: 13,000 writers read my newsletter each week.
I am so happy to bring back Perfect Your Process summit for its fifth year and I can't wait to get to know you and all the other participants.
More from the previous summits
“ All the resources were really useful and everyone was so warm and welcoming.”
“The 3 sessions on the character first novel were so timely for me and really helped me with a new story.”
-Lynne
“The Character First session, where we talked about Orientation burst open such an AHA! moment for me. It's already transforming my writing, and I am eternally grateful." - Paige T.
“The memories were pleasantly surprising and inspiring because it was explained from different perspectives.”
"It has already enhanced my WIP for NaNoWriMo"
"This was a highly instructive summit and did not simply regurgitate the same topics we've been fed over and over. There were topics I didn't even know were topics and speakers I'd never heard of and I loved that so much.” - Frances P.
"It feels great! Lots of different ideas!"
“The conference provided a wealth of useful and inspiring information. It was fantastic!”
"The 7 essential tips lecture was inspiring and helpful, the talk about plot payoff was incredibly organized and taught me a great deal, the lecture series organized by Daniel offered very easily digested ideas that simplified the conceptual side of creating a story. ” - Julia F.
"I appreciated the hour or two breaks between the presentations because most of us are multi-tasking. I did miss one morning so have to catch up. The Plot Pass made that worry free.”
“You covered everything. From how to write a novel to how to publish it. Great context. Very well organized. ”
“Hearing such a wide range of speakers talk about their craft with such passion. Listening to them gave me the enthusiasm and determination to keep going with the story I have lodged in my head.” - Zoe J.
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