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Michael Pollan on writing: What illuminates a story?
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- 1 How to Tell if You're a Writer | John Irving | Big Think
- 2 Learning How to Write Well | Yann Martel | Big Think | Big Think
- 3 John Irving: Advice to Aspiring Novelists: Don't Shoot Yourself
- 4 Margaret Atwood's Creative Process | Big Think
- 5 Salman Rushdie on Novel Writing
- 6 Why Writing Fiction Is So Difficult
- 7 Bad Writers Have Nothing to Say | Robert Mckee | Big Think
- 8 How to Become a Writer
- 9 Before you write an open letter, make sure it meets this criteria | Debra Mashek | Big Think
- 10 Paul Auster to Young Writers: Lose the Ego
- 11 A Writing Teacher's Favorite Writing Exercises
- 12 How do you write?
- 13 Tom Perrotta's Advice to Writers
- 14 What Do You Have To Sacrifice To Be a Writer?
- 15 Advice to Writers
- 16 Staring Down the Challenges of Writing
- 17 What advice do you have for young writers?
- 18 Writers Make Sense Out of Chaos
- 19 A Successful TV Writer On Why Not To Write For TV
- 20 Why etiquette governs the art of writing: Lolita, Ulysses, and the arrogance of genius | Martin Amis
- 21 How to use a thesaurus to actually improve your writing | Martin Amis | Big Think
- 22 Walter Mosley: A Lesson on Great Literature
- 23 How to Overcome Writer’s Block: A Lesson from Augusten Burroughs | Big Think
- 24 James Patterson on writing: Plotting, research, and first drafts | Big Think
- 25 How to Write: Listen to Your Animal Impulses. A Lesson from Joshua Cohen | Big Think
- 26 Orhan Pamuk: The Secret to Writing is Rewriting | Big Think
- 27 Tom Perrotta on Becoming a Writer
- 28 Isabel Allende's Writing Process
- 29 Steven Pinker on Writing About Science
- 30 Power Moves, in Writing and Life
- 31 Writing 101: Choose Your Critics Wisely | Jacqueline Woodson | Big Think
- 32 The Key to Universal Science Writing Is Subjectivity and Personalization | Big Think
- 33 2 Different Ways to Write a Book: Beach Reads, War & Peace, F. Scott Fitzgerald | Salman Rushdie
- 34 Michael Pollan on writing: What illuminates a story?