The Writing Life

‘The day I officially became a storyteller’: Novelist Iffat Nawaz’s (very) personal essay on writing

‘I had become the voice of my family, the storyteller who would explain how we lived, how he died, how we desperately needed to live further to make it beyond.’

Iffat Nawaz
· Jan 20, 2024 · 08:30 am
Why do writers go away to write? A founder of a writing retreat offers insights

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· Aug 06, 2023 · 01:30 pm
Can academic writing be engaging? Takeaways from a writing workshop

The issue is how to write, and the key to this is to be taught how to read, to identify core arguments, and to recognise the spine of an argument.

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· Jul 08, 2023 · 07:30 am

Did the Clintons, Bill and Hillary, actually write the novels that credit them as co-authors?

A technique called ‘stylometry’ has revealed that James Patterson, former US President Bill Clinton’s collaborator, wrote most of ‘The President is Missing’.

James O'Sullivan, The Conversation
· Jan 22, 2023 · 05:30 pm
The extended idea of authorship: How translators, readers and languages take it beyond the writer

How translators, readers and languages take the idea of authorship beyond the original writer

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· Nov 23, 2019 · 08:30 am
Danielle Steel writes for 20 hours a day. Four novelists weigh in on her gruelling work schedule

There is no one method to write often and well other than finding what works best for you.

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· May 17, 2019 · 05:30 pm

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‘The day I officially became a storyteller’: Novelist Iffat Nawaz’s (very) personal essay on writing

‘I had become the voice of my family, the storyteller who would explain how we lived, how he died, how we desperately needed to live further to make it beyond.’

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