Before War and Peace

More calm during the action; more action during the calm.

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The Blank Page

How to explain all that failed ambition?

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Why don’t readers exist?

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How does a poor ending slam shut a reader’s journey?

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How does Alice Munro conceal the propulsion of her stories?

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How does time assist the storyteller?

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How does Elif Shafak sidestep the temptation of cliché?

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Why does Karl Ove Knausgård's writing captivate so many people? Writers should consider the question.

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You’re given a pen, a bit of ink, a single page, and told to scribble one final line. What do you write?