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Lisa Birk

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How to Write a Page-Turner:
What Essays Can Teach Novelists

How to Write a Page-Turner: What Essays Can Teach Novelists

The Da Vinci Code is fast paced, a “page-turner.” Proust’s In Search of Lost Time is not. We don’t need Writer’s Digest to define...

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Why Stories Matter, Especially Now

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On Writing the Other: 8 Resources

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Without Geography You're Nowhere: Why Setting Matters

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Re Jane: Smart Fun

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Hacking Camp NANOWRIMO

Lessons on Narrative Distance:
What Essays Can Teach Novelists

Lessons on Narrative Distance: What Essays Can Teach Novelists

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