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The first draft of your book is where the ‘writing’ really begins. You can spend years imagining a story – planning out the setting, building up the world, marinating in the minds of your characters – but until there are words on a page, it’s all theoretical. This is why authors, editors, and agents alike give budding writers the same advice; start writing. None of the rest of it matters until you …
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Ask most authors for their advice on storytelling and, sooner or later, they’re likely to get to the subject of conflict. To many writers, conflict is the basic unit of story – the thing that turns a series of events into an actual narrative – often more important than setting, characters, and even narrative cohesion. After all, you can lose all of those features and still write something that …
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MasterClass offers perhaps unprecedented access to world experts on everything from coffee-brewing to creative writing. After you’ve poured yourself a cup of the former, join me for a sneak preview of the latter as we dip into David Sedaris’ MasterClass to see if you develop a taste for more. Fireside chats with David Sedaris Sedaris’ course ‘Storytelling and Humor’ is unsurprisingly …
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Ian McEwan published his first novel in the late 1970s, but it wasn’t until the late eighties that he began to sneak into the spotlight, with his 1987 novel The Child in Time winning a Whitbread Award and his 1998 novel Amsterdam winning the Man Booker. Then, in 2001, he blew everyone’s minds with Atonement, his most widely known and successful novel. A remarkably prolific writer despite his …
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Reddit – the self-declared front page of the internet. This weird combo of a social news aggregate, discussion forum, and content-sharing site has been around since 2005 and, despite the occasional controversy, it continues to be an open, accessible, and mostly friendly place for those interested in, well, anything. That’s right – there’s a subreddit (a dedicated area of the site) for just …
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Great Britain, if you haven’t heard of it, is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, just north of France. It’s very rainy, and the people who live here like to talk about how rainy it is more than perhaps any other topic. We’re consistent like that. Despite this inauspicious description, writers and filmmakers keep finding reasons to either set their work in Britain or write British characters. The …
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