From : The Globe and Mail
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Fiction? Near death. But advice about writing fiction? It’s thriving.
Right now, aspiring novelists around the world are sending each other links to last weekend’s article in The Guardian, Ten Rules For Writing Fiction. Riffing on Elmore Leonard’s notoriously slim book 10 Rules of Writing, the British newspaper simply asked a dozen famous authors – including Margaret Atwood, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Franzen and Richard Ford – to submit a few lines of advice on how to make a novel. Leonard’s own list is also included. The answers were largely predictable (cut off your Internet connection, easy on the similes, minimize your descriptions) and then partly contradictory (listen to your trusted readers, don’t listen to anyone; write your way through a blank, take a break if you are blank), so they are unlikely to be of great practical use to the unpublished
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