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    Literary Fiction Writing

    If your passion is for literary fiction, you’ll find guidelines for mastering plot, character, setting, dialogue and more right here. You’ll also get insights into selling your work and getting it published.

    An Interview With Hemingway

    March 11, 2008 | admin | Comments: 0

    In December 1964, Edward Stafford provided Writer’s Digest with an interview conducted with Ernest Hemingway shortly before the author’s death in 1961. It’s excerpted here for the first time in more than 40 years. Please note that the excerpt has been abridged due to space considerations. Read more

    Dissecting the Short Story: In Class with T.C. Boyle

    March 11, 2008 | W.E. Reinka | Comments: 0

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    THE WD INTERVIEW: Chuck Palahniuk: Shock And Awe

    March 11, 2008 | Jordan E. Rosenfeld | Comments: 0

    Cult author Chuck Palahniuk continues to push literary boundaries in strange—even forbidding—territories. Find out what compels this seemingly mild-mannered author of novels like Read more

    8 Basic Writing Blunders

    March 11, 2008 | Jerry B. Jenkins | Comments: 1

    These big-picture writing errors might make you cringe with recognition. But shake it off: Bestselling novelist Jerry B. Jenkins will help you fix them.

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    Anything But Simple

    March 11, 2008 | Jack Clemens | Comments: 0

    Ernest Hemingway’s clean, terse style is the perfect counterweight to his complex stories. Read more

    Word Pictures

    March 11, 2008 | John Black | Comments: 0

    One of the best-loved writers in American literature today, John Irving offers a novelist’s perspective on screenplay adaptations and talks about his obsession with the ultimate personal loss. Read more

    Write With Prejudice

    March 11, 2008 | Jack Clemens | Comments: 0

    Flannery O”Connor employed a unique form of narrative bias to power her stories. Read more

    Jack Kerouac’s Letters

    March 11, 2008 | admin | Comments: 0

    Jack Kerouac created a modern American folk hero in the Beat generation classic, On the Road (Bantam), out of his vagabond adventures with friend Neal Cassady. A new book sheds light on Kerouac and his life during the writing of a novel that changed a generation. Read more

    Singularly Modern

    March 11, 2008 | Jack Clemens | Comments: 0

    Even as a member of a distinctive literary club, Virginia Woolf broke new ground all by herself. Read more

    Vonnegut on Fiction

    March 11, 2008 | Kelly Nickell | Comments: 0

    Slaughterhouse Five author Kurt Vonnegut reflects on his writing style, the craft and the evolution of fiction. Read more

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