A Modern Creative Writers Manual

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• The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop
• Top 10 books writers should read
• The Best Writing Book I've Ever Read
• A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

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Koch takes us inside the writing process, and it is impossible not to emerge transformed. Writing Nonfiction Classics Reference Category: Writing Nonfiction Classics Reference. Also by Stephen Koch. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Looking for More Great Reads?

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Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. When writing a story, whether a short story a story in a novel, write the first draft in one sitting, says Koch. This works because it harnesses the natural storyteller in you. Every storyteller hates to get cut off before she gets to finish telling her story, and you will write faster and longer in order to get the end.

The day after reading this advice, I wrote a 2, word story. I normally write very slowly, rarely more than 1, words a day, but the next day I wrote a 3, word story.

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Instead, he lets the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed authors in the 20th century speak about the craft themselves, filling the book with hundreds of quotes from dozens of authors. I especially liked when he pitted these authors against each other, showing how they disagreed, for example, about point of view or how to write a first draft.

A Guide to the Craft of Fiction

It was like being in a giant conversation—one that occasionally broke out into arguments—with the best writers of the century. Here are just a few writers involved in the conversation: If the one draft is fast and reckless, the next should probably be slow and painstaking. Writing quickly gives confidence and allows you to make daring experiments and intuitive leaps.