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Losing the plot: How do you write fiction or nonfiction without a plot?

by Virginia Lloyd | Oct 25, 2011 | Blog, Improve your writing, Publishing

The Guardian recently launched a series of short pieces by writers as diverse as Geoff Dyer and Kate Grenville on how to write fiction. The series, dubbed A Guardian Masterclass, includes Rachel Cusk on point of view, DPC Pierre on dialogue and Kate Mosse on plot....

Eight rules for writing a short story

by Virginia Lloyd | Aug 23, 2009 | Blog, Improve your writing

In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Kurt Vonnegut lists these rules for writing a short story: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can...
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