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#43: Train Your Weaknesses, Write Your Strengths (What I Learned About Writing From Running, and Vice Versa)
Andy Jones-Wilkins, Paul Terranova, Meg LeFauve, Lorien McKenna, Nick Fuller Googins, my Uncle John
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#42: Managing Difficulty in Fiction
Ben Marcus, Lance Olsen, Paul Kingsnorth, Eimear McBride, David Mitchell, Marlon James, Brian Evenson, Catherynne M. Valente, George Perec, Peter…
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#41: Frodo Baggins Dreams of Hobbit Helmets
J.R.R. Tolkien, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, C.L. Clark.
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#40: Imagining a Future of Mutual Aid
Rebecca Solnit, The Last of Us, Cormac McCarthy, N.K. Jemisin, Jonathan Lethem, Diane Cook, Ander Monson, Kerry Howley, Victor LaValle, John Cotter.
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#39: Enlivening Dialogue with Telling Action
Raymond Carver, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Keaton, Gene Hackman, Iron Man, Thor, Julia Armfield.
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#38: The Protagonist Trap
Brian Evenson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Alyssa Songsiridej, Danya Kukafka, Annie Ernaux.
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#37: Chapter Beginnings (and Transitions)
Meg Howrey, Torrey Peters, S.A. Cosby, Victor LaValle, Julia May Jonas, Sam Lipsyte, Tom Robbins, Ann Hood.
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#36: No Failure, Only Practice
Gordon Lish, Hilary Mantel, Bonnie Nadzam, Matthew Salesses, Jane Smiley, Melissa Febos, Montesquieu
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No Failure, Only Practice
No Failure, Only Practice
Fiction writing exercises, craft essays, and reading recommendations from Matt Bell, author of APPLESEED and REFUSE TO BE DONE. Publishes monthly.

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