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On Becoming a Novelist
by John Gardner
Gardner on the novelist's nature, education, publication and faith. Less technique, more vocation.
Read it if…
you wonder if you are a novelist.
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Skip it if…
you want craft exercises.
Try instead: How Fiction Works →
Three things you will actually use
- Novelists need a certain stubbornness.
- Education is reading.
- Faith in the work.
Do this first
Read the chapter on the writer's nature.
Our verdict
The novelist's vocation.
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