… We will discuss craft (narrative voice, dialogue, characterization, description, pacing, structure, etc.) more than content, although we will consider books' relation to literary trends and the history of ideas. We will not try to identify ‘the formula’ for best-selling novels or figure out how to write a successful Hollywood script in ten minutes a day. We hope to avoid discussions that quickly turn to whether or not the dinner scene on page 42 reminded us to take the leftovers out of …