Writing Tips From the Experts

Writing Tips From the Experts

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How to Tell if You're a Writer | John Irving | Big Think

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How to Tell if You're a Writer | John Irving | Big Think

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Writing Tips From the Experts

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  1. 1 How to Tell if You're a Writer | John Irving | Big Think
  2. 2 Learning How to Write Well | Yann Martel | Big Think | Big Think
  3. 3 John Irving: Advice to Aspiring Novelists: Don't Shoot Yourself
  4. 4 Margaret Atwood's Creative Process | Big Think
  5. 5 Salman Rushdie on Novel Writing
  6. 6 Why Writing Fiction Is So Difficult
  7. 7 Bad Writers Have Nothing to Say | Robert Mckee | Big Think
  8. 8 How to Become a Writer
  9. 9 Before you write an open letter, make sure it meets this criteria | Debra Mashek | Big Think
  10. 10 Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
  11. 11 A Writing Teacher's Favorite Writing Exercises
  12. 12 How do you write?
  13. 13 Tom Perrotta's Advice to Writers
  14. 14 What Do You Have To Sacrifice To Be a Writer?
  15. 15 Advice to Writers
  16. 16 Staring Down the Challenges of Writing
  17. 17 What advice do you have for young writers?
  18. 18 Writers Make Sense Out of Chaos
  19. 19 A Successful TV Writer On Why Not To Write For TV
  20. 20 Why etiquette governs the art of writing: Lolita, Ulysses, and the arrogance of genius | Martin Amis
  21. 21 How to use a thesaurus to actually improve your writing | Martin Amis | Big Think
  22. 22 Walter Mosley: A Lesson on Great Literature
  23. 23 How to Overcome Writer’s Block: A Lesson from Augusten Burroughs | Big Think
  24. 24 James Patterson on writing: Plotting, research, and first drafts | Big Think
  25. 25 How to Write: Listen to Your Animal Impulses. A Lesson from Joshua Cohen | Big Think
  26. 26 Orhan Pamuk: The Secret to Writing is Rewriting | Big Think
  27. 27 Tom Perrotta on Becoming a Writer
  28. 28 Isabel Allende's Writing Process
  29. 29 Steven Pinker on Writing About Science
  30. 30 Power Moves, in Writing and Life
  31. 31 Writing 101: Choose Your Critics Wisely | Jacqueline Woodson | Big Think
  32. 32 The Key to Universal Science Writing Is Subjectivity and Personalization | Big Think
  33. 33 2 Different Ways to Write a Book: Beach Reads, War & Peace, F. Scott Fitzgerald | Salman Rushdie
  34. 34 Michael Pollan on writing: What illuminates a story?

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