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Gary Shteyngart: Three Simple Tricks for Writing Your Novel FAST!!!

Gary Shteyngart: Three Simple Tricks for Writing Your Novel FAST!!!

Walk! Nap! Write!

By Gary Shteyngart | November 19, 2021

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

Kyle Lucia Wu on What Novelists Can Learn From Poets

"New scenes unspooled easily once I’d stopped thinking about them."

By Kyle Lucia Wu | November 12, 2021

Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

"I easily go down deep rabbit holes."

By Victoria Chang | October 29, 2021

Craig Davidson on the Secrets Best Left Out of Memoir

Craig Davidson on the Secrets Best Left Out of Memoir

"I’d slipped a gear between living a story and making a story."

By Craig Davidson | October 22, 2021

Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

“Around us, everything is writing.”

By Marguerite Duras | October 15, 2021

Wisława Szymborska on Learning to Write from Life

Wisława Szymborska on Learning to Write from Life

“Seek out friends who read widely.”

By Wisława Szymborska | October 8, 2021

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Roy Peter Clark on How to Write Cinematically

By Roy Peter Clark | October 1, 2021

War and Peace">Yiyun Li on Taking Writing Lessons from War and Peace

By Yiyun Li | September 24, 2021

Margaret Renkl on Finding Ideas Everywhere

By Margaret Renkl | September 17, 2021

Jai Chakrabarti on How to Get Unstuck While Writing

Jai Chakrabarti on How to Get Unstuck While Writing

"I took a long pause."

By Jai Chakrabarti | September 10, 2021

Jeff VanderMeer on Keeping Creative Play Alive

Jeff VanderMeer on Keeping Creative Play Alive

"Different forces are at work today with regard to the imagination."

By Jeff VanderMeer | September 3, 2021

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

"To write well we must sink into the silt of this world."

By Bonnie Friedman | August 27, 2021

What Makes a Great First Sentence?

What Makes a Great First Sentence?

Alice McDermott on the Importance of Starting a Story with Confidence

By Alice McDermott | August 18, 2021

Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

Maurice Carlos Ruffin on Understanding Voice in Fiction

"I write as a conductor, not as a performer."

By Maurice Carlos Ruffin | August 13, 2021

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

Larissa Pham on Allowing Memory to Shape a Memoir

"I don’t believe life is narrative."

By Larissa Pham | August 6, 2021

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

Zadie Smith on Reading While You Write

How Writers Speak to One Another Across Time and Space

By Zadie Smith | July 23, 2021

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