Subscribe
Sign in
Home
Matt Bell
Archive
About
Latest
Top
Discussions
#53: Traveling for Research: A Field Report
Jack Hitt, Andrew McCarthy, The Codex Calixtinus, Tom Bissell, John Kelly, James Salter
Jul 17
•
Matt Bell
39
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
#53: Traveling for Research: A Field Report
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
22
June 2025
#52: How I Research a Novel, in the Stacks and in the World
Andrea Barrett, Allison Amend, Lauren Groff, Will Chancellor
Jun 11
•
Matt Bell
57
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
#52: How I Research a Novel, in the Stacks and in the World
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
2
Recording of June 3, 2025 Craft Lecture
Hello friends!
Jun 7
•
Matt Bell
5
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
Recording of June 3, 2025 Craft Lecture
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
4
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Lecture Today!
“Sentence Acoustics and Style”: This lecture on how to write better sentences and paragraphs will begin with theory and then proceed through a number of…
Jun 3
•
Matt Bell
6
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Lecture Today!
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
6
May 2025
#51: "Confounding and Transformative Works" by Tom McAllister, author of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE
Tom McAllister, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller, David Lynch, Stevie Wonder, Terrance Malick, Sandra Cisneros, Anthony Bourdain.
May 14
•
Matt Bell
30
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
#51: "Confounding and Transformative Works" by Tom McAllister, author of IT ALL FELT IMPOSSIBLE
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
6
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Help Choose the June Zoom Lecture!
Hello friends!
May 5
•
Matt Bell
7
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Help Choose the June Zoom Lecture!
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
4
#50: Write Better Fiction by Reading like a Book Reviewer
Hello friends!
May 2
•
Matt Bell
106
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
#50: Write Better Fiction by Reading like a Book Reviewer
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
13
March 2025
#49: Creating Meaningful Repetition with Noun Phrases
Rita Bullwinkel, Robert Lopez, Virginia Tufte, Nathan Ballingrud, Charlotte McConaghy, Jules Verne.
Mar 18
•
Matt Bell
26
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
#49: Creating Meaningful Repetition with Noun Phrases
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
11
Recording of March 11 Craft Lecture
Hello friends!
Mar 12
•
Matt Bell
5
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
Recording of March 11 Craft Lecture
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Lecture Today!
March 11, 7pm ET
Mar 11
•
Matt Bell
1
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Lecture Today!
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Zoom Lecture on Novel Writing and Revision on March 11
Subscribe by March 10 to access March 11 Zoom lecture
Mar 4
•
Matt Bell
17
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
Paid Subscriber Benefit: Live Zoom Lecture on Novel Writing and Revision on March 11
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
9
February 2025
#48: Action, Dialogue, Image: Using Screenwriting as a Revision Tool for Fiction
Virginia Woolf, Jesse Eisenberg, Nicholson Baker.
Feb 18
•
Matt Bell
62
Share this post
No Failure, Only Practice
#48: Action, Dialogue, Image: Using Screenwriting as a Revision Tool for Fiction
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
3
Share
Copy link
Facebook
Email
Notes
More
This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please
turn on JavaScript
or unblock scripts
