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MasterClass is a service which allows its users to watch unique lectures by eminent figures in various fields. One of those fields is writing, and the eminent figure we’ll be talking about today is Dan Brown, author of the Robert Langdon thrillers The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, as well as Digital Fortress and Deception Point. Specifically, we’ll be asking if Dan Brown’s MasterClass is …
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Scusami, did you just say ‘the tomato technique?’ Yep, named for the tomato-shaped timer used by Francesco Cirillo, the Pomodoro Technique is a popular time-management tool, and if there’s one resource authors always need more of, it’s time.If time management isn’t one of your priorities right now, congratulations; you’re the only person on earth who doesn’t need to improve efficiency and output. …
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If you’ve been keeping up with our series of articles on ways famous authors can improve your writing, you’ll doubtless have noticed that a surprising number of them recommend writing longhand. Rather than typing as quick as your fingers will let you, these authors suggest you pick up a pen and paper and record your thoughts the slow way. Now, while most of these aforementioned canonical …
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Do you remember story-mapping in grade school? I can picture it now: my bubbly, gel-pen lettering (man, I thought my handwriting was beautiful) inside a few dozen circles, spidered together with linking lines and connecting thoughts. When we got to high school, or college at the latest, our courses became too ‘serious’ for such time-consuming doodles. But maybe instead of junking this process …
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Free writing is a popular technique that can help you brainstorm, break through writer’s block, exercise your writing muscles, and get in the zone for less free-form work. By writing for a set period without concern for spelling, grammar, structure, or even subject, you can strip away the doubts and niggles that hold your writing back, and adopting this technique could even help you finish your …
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Mischievous and chaotic, the trickster is a character archetype that recurs throughout mythology, folklore, literature and pop culture. This is, in part, thanks to its boundless flexibility: tricksters can be good, evil or amoral; hero or villain; help or hindrance; spiteful or angelic; comic-relief, obstacle, gatekeeper, sidekick and/or henchperson. Despite this ambiguity of role, essayist Paul …
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