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Ah, the biography – a form frequently mangled by those who think it’s an easy beast to tame. All you need is a person to write about or an exciting life, right? After that, the book writes itself. Wrong. While writers of biographies, memoirs, and autobiographies don’t have to worry about thinking up original stories or characters, they do have plenty of obstacles to face: incredibly detailed …
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When it comes to writing, few things beat an insightful eye and an inquisitive mind. Happily, those attributes aren’t the sole province of novelists, and there’s plenty any writer can learn from journalism. That’s why, in this article, I’ll be looking at eight ways authors can improve their writing by thinking like journalists. If you’re writing non-fiction, there’s lots that’s going to be …
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In every generation of writers, artists, and musicians, there are one or two who go on to reshape the public consciousness through their identities and legacies. I’m thinking, for example, of how Percy Shelley has been the foppish, sensitive face of poetry in the popular imagination for centuries; how, thanks to Vincent van Gogh, all passionate artists are wild-eyed and one-eared; and how, thanks …
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ story is an odd one. Until 2008, he was a modestly successful journalist writing for papers including The Washington City Paper and Time. But soon after, his Atlantic column and wildly successful blog culminated in the publication of his first memoir, The Beautiful Struggle. After attempting to pick up where celebrated author, essayist, and activist James Baldwin left off with …
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I really mostly just want to thank my wife… she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and encouragement instead of strangling me, throwing my remains into a wood chipper, and then pretending she had never been married to me at all is a testament to the fact that she is, in fact, the single best person I know. I love her more than I can actually express in …
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Editing your story is, if we’re honest, more than half the battle of completing it. The first draft is a rush of creativity, but it’s in the editing that you turn it into a well-oiled machine that (crucially) is more concerned with entertaining the reader than acting as an outlet for the author. The technical, word-by-word editing is, if not easy, at least approachable. You can break it down …
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