Course 391 · Lesson 01

Advanced Creative Writing: Character, Setting, and the Short Story

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Becoming a Writer: From Reader to Storyteller

391.1 Lesson 01 of 08 3 quiz questions 1 assignment

Every writer begins with a reader. The author of this guide became a librarian at grade six — too young for the task, but so devoted to books that when the older students lost interest and moved on, he was the only one left. From that small library in a housing estate, he moved through Dickens, Fleming, Puzo, and Satyajit Ray, reading every novel he could reach. He cannot recall all their plots today, but those books shaped the way he thinks and the writer he became.

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