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Revision, perfection, football, art (opens the original)
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I was thinking about what makes a person—what makes me—want to write. It’s lonely to sit in a chair for many hours in front of a screen and with nobody interacting with you. Nobody except, of course, the books around you which at a stretch can be imagined as a team of colleagues. They prove that the task is possible, and that good stories can be made even now, even after all the other good stories.And they show you how to do it. This is important. They’re your mentors and your models. They never
3 Lessons in Describing Characters (opens the original)
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There are many approaches to describing a person’s physical appearance in fiction, all good and useful. Here are three distinct enough that they form their own micro lessons.I might have drawn from any decent novel, but I took from my table this morning Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend, John le Carre’s The Night Manager and Cornell Woolrich’s story, “For The Rest of Her Life”. The wild differences between these works may give you a sense of how undisciplined my reading can be, how I flit, a
Power your writing with LISTS (opens the original)
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Prepare for the day you forget how to write, or why you write, by keeping close the works of writers like Elena Ferrante.Ferrante’s work is full of personal details that you’re sure must be the author’s own (except they’re not). Of unlikely events you will believe even if they defy the laws of physics. I will read Ferrante to remind myself of what is achievable. I consider her a personal friend even though I’ve never met her. Well, I don’t think I’ve met her. Elena Ferrante has maintained a hidd
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