How can you best write about your own hobbies, whether they be watchmaking or piano-playing, in your fiction and nonfiction? Well, let’s turn to a few authors who’ve already excelled at this and see what we can learn…
In many ways, writing a biography is arguably more difficult than writing a work of fiction. You’ve got to respect the truth, and the boundaries of reality and your own research limit what you can do with your characters and plot.
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 …
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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 …
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