# Blackbird's Flight School with Jennifer Lauck

🐦‍⬛ Spent 20 years failing at novels until I cracked the code. Now I teach the map: scene by scene, the craft that actually works. 🐦‍⬛

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## [The Writer Who Can Imagine Transformation](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/the-writer-who-can-imagine-transformation)

_2026-08-17 · Jennifer Lauck_

The difference between a book that lasts a hundred years and one that disappears in two

## [The Summer of the Finch: The Question That Remains](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-the-finch-the-question)

_2026-08-10 · Jennifer Lauck_

Watch now | Ten weeks. Two books. One question we walked in with — and what we found on the other side.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210380081/1adb501bdada7093dfde9be299c22e8f.mp3)

## [The Line She Hid in Plain Sight](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/the-line-she-hid-in-plain-sight)

_2026-08-03 · Jennifer Lauck_

Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. — Charles Lamb, epigraph to To Kill a Mockingbird

## [The Editors Sharp Eye: Nothing Is Wasted](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/the-editors-sharp-eye-nothing-is)

_2026-07-21 · Jennifer Lauck_

What Tay Hohoff, who edited Harper Lee, saw in Go Set a Watchman. A master class on revision

## [The Summer of the Finch: A Conversation in Paris](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-the-finch-a-conversation)

_2026-07-10 · Jennifer Lauck_

Two Saturday seekers. One book nobody finishes. And the questions that wouldn’t let go.

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/205942541/e4e1539f3d5b399a81571dbdf5326d8f.mp3)

## [Summer of the Finch: Go Set a Watchman](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/summer-of-the-finch-go-set-a-watchman)

_2026-06-30 · Jennifer Lauck_

You Finished It. Now Let's Talk About What Actually Happened.

## [The Summer of the Finch: Launched](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/the-summer-of-the-finch-launched)

_2026-06-28 · Jennifer Lauck_

A dispatch from the first live conversation — and an invitation to go deeper

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203869991/42a639c301122a0603b10f88446ce484.mp3)

## [Summer of the Finch: Your 10 Week Challenge](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/summer-of-the-finch-a-reading-challenge)

_2026-06-16 · Jennifer Lauck_

The Book You Put Down. And Why This Summer You're Going to Finish It

## [The Romp Knows Something You Don't](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/the-romp-knows-something-you-dont)

_2026-06-05 · Jennifer Lauck_

A conversation with scientist and author Heide Island on otters, community, and what it actually takes to get a book published

[Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/200545986/1d0667a34c8bf7a7112ff63f7667157f.mp3)

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_2026-06-05 · **Sponsored**_

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## [Antagonistic Forces are Not Dirty Words](https://jenniferlauck.substack.com/p/antagonistic-forces-are-not-dirty)

_2026-05-15 · Jennifer Lauck_

What MFA programs won't teach you—and why you can't write it for your characters until you've done it for yourself