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A Writer's Diary

Toby Litt
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What Can We Learn from Henry James about How to Write with Ease?

Hello, today I’m going to do the last post about Henry James and what we can learn from him.

I’m going to be looking at a manuscript of a novel, not notes for a novel — The Europeans — and looking back at what I said about Jane Austen’s Pe...

11 days ago
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What Can We Learn from Henry James about Troubleshooting a Story?

Hello.

So we’re going back to Henry James’s notebooks. I should have said that this is the edition edited by Leon Edel and Lyle H. Powers called The Complete Notebooks of Henry James.

We can see in these notebooks Henry James at work and...

14 days ago
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What Can We Learn from Henry James about How to Make Notes?

Hello, welcome back.

I haven’t been doing much podcasting the last few months because I’ve been putting out the Complete Guide to Point of View, which is there on Substack for everyone to read.

And if you subscribe, you can download the w...

16 days ago
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What Can We Learn from George Orwell About Humility, Endless Humility?

Let’s get to the end of it, this opening of Nineteen Eighty-Four, in both first and final versions.

They are very different. In his first go, Orwell has Winston Smith push the lift (not elevator) button, and wait:

Nothing happened. He h...

18 days ago
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What Can We Learn From George Orwell about Deliberate Overwriting?

Sentence two of Nineteen Eighty-Four originally reads:

Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to preven...

21 days ago
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