I've been actively pursuing writing for over half a decade. And when I say I have, I mean my family has as well. There are lots of posts out there about how to have success as a writer, but there aren't many about those closest to the writers, spouses, kids, parents, friends, critique partners, etc.…
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If you want to learn how to become a writer, this career guide is packed with the skills and strategies you need to get a head-start.
I do not really know how I became a writer. I can give certain dates and certain facts about my career. But the process itself remains mysterious. It is mysterious, for instance, that the ambition should have come first—the wish to be a writer, to have that distinction, that fame—and that this ambition should have come long before I could think of anything to write about.
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In my MFA program, we were required to read 80 books over the two-year course of study. Like most writers, I was already a voracious reader, but time constraints and job demands had meant that I read far fewer than 40 books a year. In reading such a large volume of books, though, I came to embrace some tenets of story consumption:
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Jack kerouac (1922-1969) types a poem in his New York City appartment.
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