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Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Tips

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 11.06.2009 | Books

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Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

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Writing Self, Best Self?

Melanie Drane | Posted 10.16.2009 | Books

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Melanie Drane

Through writing we may access our most alert, best self, and perhaps that's what makes the work so irresistible, despite the uncertainty of employment or publication.

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Are You Sure You Want to Write a Book?

Rick Foster | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

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Rick Foster

Pretty much everybody wants to write a book. I know this because I've co-written a book, and everywhere I go, people emerge from the audience to tell me about the book they, too, are writing.

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Age, Writing and Workshops

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 08.30.2009 | Living

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Marcia DeSanctis

Any idea that I was still a young woman was temporarily dispelled the first few days of the annual Tin House Writers Conference at Reed College in Portland Oregon.

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So You Want To Be A Writer

John Lundberg | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

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John Lundberg

Whether you're dreaming of writing the great American novel or you've just got a few poems you're trying to publish, you'd be surprised at the wealth of options available to help you improve and mature as a writer.

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