Five Books
How to Write
~14 min read · May 21st · The journalist and editor Eric Olsen takes us inside the writing process and reveals who gives the best advice for aspiring authors
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Writer's Digest
How To Write Killer Characters
5 min read · Jun 13th · Developing characters as fully formed, three-dimensional people requires patience, observation, and knowing what to put on the page and what to keep off. Here, author Marnie Riches shares how to write…
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Pity Writing Studies, the Field That Hates Itself
20+ min read · May 17th · In 2009 I found myself in my late 20s, broke, and trying to get a job in the teeth of the post-financial crisis employment depression. I had applied to hundreds of positions, entry-level and low…
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Reedsy
How to Plan a Novel: From Idea to First Draft in 7 Tips
10 min read · Feb 14th · Have an exciting book idea that you want to work on? Hold your horses and discover how to plan a novel before jumping into the actual writing!
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Quillette
James Baldwin and the Trouble with Protest Literature
20+ min read · 2021-12-21 · “The hardest thing in the world to do,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in a 1934 article for Esquire, “is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to…
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literaryreview.co.uk
Joanna Kavenna - Have You Considered Accountancy?
2021-12-03 · For People Who Devour Books Subscribe Today! Sign In Register Help Friday 3rd December, 2021
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If You Want to Make It As a Writer, For God's Sakes, Be Weird
~13 min read · 2021-03-30 · you're in a market, so sell something other people aren't
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It Could Be So Much Better Than This
9 min read · 2021-11-26 · you get what you allow
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Literary Hub
A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
9 min read · 2021-10-12 · “If creativity is about power to create something from nothing, then believing in impossible things is its most critical component.” –Oli Mould, Against Creativity * I’ll invite you to read this sl…
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The New Yorker
The Most Ambitious Diary in History
7 min read · 2021-11-01 · Claude Fredericks, a Bennington classics professor, knew Anaïs Nin and James Merrill, and taught Donna Tartt. He kept a diary for eight decades, and persuaded many in his orbit that he was writing a…
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The New Republic
The Afterlives of E.M. Forster
~16 min read · 2021-09-21 · For decades, Forster could not publish his novel of gay love, “Maurice.” Its importance in his work and to the writers he nurtured is only just becoming clear.
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Guardian Books
Top 10 gripes in literature
5 min read · 2021-08-25 · Some distrust kvetching in print, but writers from Shakespeare to Valerie Solanas show there’s nothing wrong with constructive – and even destructive – criticism
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Brain Pickings
Chekhov on the Ultimate Task of Art and How (Not) to Be a Writer
2 min read · 2021-09-02 · On solving problems vs. posing questions.
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Every
Chaotic Good
~15 min read · 2021-07-20 · Or, how to stop hating yourself and start writing.
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Open Culture
Umberto Eco’s 36 Rules for Writing Well (in English or Italian)
3 min read · 2021-06-18 · Creative Commons image by Rob Bogaerts, via the National Archives in Holland Umberto Eco knew a great many things. Indeed too many things, at least according to his critics:
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Adam Thomas
Quarterly Review
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