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July 28 [1]

Fiction [2]
7.27.11

In a radio interview this week on Fresh Air with Terry Gross [3], fiction writer Donald Ray Pollock, whose most recent novel, The Devil All the Time, was published this month, talked about how he learned to write by typing out a story by an established author once a week. Use Pollock’s strategy this week, typing a story by an author whose writing you admire. After typing it out, print out a copy and carry it with you, reading and rereading it, making notes along the way. Let the process reveal the story’s gifts to you. Then begin a story of your own.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/july_28 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://www.npr.org/2011/07/26/138605683/donald-ray-pollock-on-finding-fiction-late-in-life