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Why do you live here? (opens the original)
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A bottle of Châteauneuf-du-Pape is worth three to four times more than a bottle of Côtes du Rhône made the same way in a neighbouring village. The sun is the same. The soil is the same. The two vineyards could be separated by the length of a school bus.What’s the difference?The French call it terroir, that combination of land and climatic conditions, history and tradition and care. A novelist calls it setting.For those of us who use narrative techniques in our jobs, it can be the distinction bet
Are you an author? Or an authoritarian? (opens the original)
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I have authority. You authorize that activity. She speaks and acts authoritatively. That is an authoritarian leader.Apart from the dictionary definitions of these words, it’s easy to miss “author” in them and how it might help us understand something fundamental about what we do every day, how we do it, and why we do it.Because I write fiction, to me an author is a novelist dressed up for a night at the opera, ideally in a black-and-white photograph with a cigarette. But how did the novelist aff
The grim dangers of "You are not alone" (opens the original)
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An early reader of my new novel sent a message on LinkedIn. I’ll spare you some of the nice things she said and leave it at this:“I’ve been worried about my son and this helped. It got us talking.”Novels aren’t self-help programs but this is what writers most want, when we work on these things for years and years. Her note made me dizzy with joy and pride. Also I have chronic vertigo but the joy was in there, for sure.When I was in my early 20s, I would have been an absolutely stellar candidate
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