Excerpt: Oddly enough, the more tired you get as you write and rewrite, the more likely you are to abandon any self-conscious semi-stentorian writing and write more like yourself.

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You learn to write by writing, and writing a novel (counting the time for research and working out the back-story on all the main characters) usually takes about two years.

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Ms. PROSE: What kind of narrative non-fiction do you write or are you interested in writing?

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His book-writing career began with a failed attempt to write a cookbook.

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Nearly a third were unable to read 20 common words, while 17% of the children were still at the basic stage of writing and could not write their own name or other words from memory - an increase from 15% last year.

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In the session on article and feature writing, the lecture covered -- how to select a subject, how to write a theme sentence to determine the parameters of the subject, and how to collect and sort out the material.

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