write to win
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How to use therapeutic writing for empowerment without revisiting trauma
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Decolonising creative writing: It’s about not conforming to techniques of the western canon
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The true story of how my mobile phone turned my novel into a love story in prose poetry
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Why the profusion of courses in India will not over-professionalise the practice of creative writing
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How to build a creative writing programme as part of academic courses at an Indian university
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Can creative writing be taught in universities? Is it not in conflict with academic rigour?
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Many writers say they can actually hear their characters speak. Can they be right, after all?
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How a writing programme in Iowa taught me to feel for people (and learn to become a better writer)
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Finding your book: Vikram Chandra on the exhilarating yet excruciating journey of the novelist
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This novel proves that the omniscient narrator is making a comeback to contemporary fiction
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How to be a millennial and write a novel centred around a romance in the India of the 1970s
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Can the first page make or break a novelist’s career? An editor answers
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Why writers should eavesdrop constantly if they want to better their craft
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I’m talking to you: Are second-person narratives in literature effective?
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Ten writers talk of words they detest and prefer not to use (and of words they love)
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How to be a writer: Why everyone should learn to write their own messy stories
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A writers’ retreat in Goa promises an immersive experience with three published authors as mentors
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Embracing your complicated family and four other lessons on fiction writing from Amy Tan
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Publishers insist writers stick to one genre. But what if they don’t want to be a ‘genre author’?
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‘She looked at him angrily’: Six rules for writing an ‘urban thriller’ from a successful author
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How to make your own creative writing course, with a little help from well-known writers
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Three editor-turned-writers on what it takes to cross over to the other side of the publishing fence
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Pro tips from millennial writers on how to write despite the seduction of social media
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This is how the world’s great writers actually made a living. (It wasn’t from their books)
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How to write for global readers in an Indian accent
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Let’s face it, writing is hell. But that is what makes some of it ‘world leading’
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How much money can you really expect when you turn in your manuscript to a publisher?
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Less creativity, more writing. This book has no-bullshit advice for creative writers
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Why this author just hates the fiction writing orgy known as #NaNoWriMo
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How the use of the present tense in fiction is making readers...tense
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Writing a novel? Try telling it in 300 words and three minutes
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Why this writer likes getting little girls into big trouble
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What an editor wants her writers to know
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Where will a love affair between a novelist and her detective character lead them?
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You know the haiku? Now meet the haibun, the other Japanese form
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Video: 'Don't you ever have writer's constipation?' asks George RR Martin. 'No,' says Stephen King
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There’s no choice but to market your own book aggressively, Amish tells aspiring writers
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‘Dhanak’ to ‘Dhanak’: How to turn a movie into a book
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Writer’s block: Why do Indian businesspeople refuse to talk openly?
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Do Indian writers and publishers have all the editorial resources they need to create good books?
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Seven books to read before you start writing your own
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How I went from being a novelist to a writer on Priyanka Chopra’s ‘Quantico’
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The Bad Sex in Fiction award: How not to write a sex scene
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Why writers must get a life before they can write
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How to write a rom-com in a recession
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The three real forms of Writer’s Block that an author faces
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From a publisher to writers: you cannot entertain your readers
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Why horror and teens are the perfect mix
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Nine tips on how to write a thriller
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Last lines: How to end your novel
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The editor's dilemma: to be or not to be a vigilante?
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Building your characters: how to get to the heart of fiction
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Making a beginning: the seeds of a story
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How do the best writers put a voice into their stories?
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Lessons from the masters: How to use the unconscious brain to write
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Bewakoof or fool? How to write historical fiction
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Three tips for writing successful commercial fiction in India
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How to be a writer without giving up your full-time job
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How to use real life to write relationship novels
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First person: how bestselling author Durjoy Datta became a writer – and what motivated him
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The digital age is changing writing more than it is changing reading
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How I wrote a novel at 19 and was published at 20
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Two scams that writers in India should be wary of
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Girls from good families do not write such stories
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How to pick a literary agent
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No, Ann Bauer, I am a writer by choice, not because I have the luxury to be one
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How to turn mythology into hot-selling fiction
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11 books you must read if you wish to write chick-lit
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In defence of studying creative writing
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How to write a modern-day Mahabharata
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Five rules for writing wickedly funny satire from a Pakistani social butterfly