Do you want to get everything you ever wanted & live your best life? Then you're going to have to read hard, wide & free.
Together, let's learn how to read & write by analysing the best works ever written, and then some.
How do writers do it - keep readers turning the page until they finish the book or throw it across the room?
Each episode looks at one book, its first line and a standout section where there's a lesson to be learned about writing.
Dissecting writers' language, genre and how their work fits into a greater context can help us understand other people and ourselves. x
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Do you want to get everything you ever wanted & live your best life? Then you're going to have to read hard, wide & free.
Together, let's learn how to read & write by analysing the best works ever written, and then some.
How do writers do it - keep readers turning the page until they finish the book or throw it across the room?
Each episode looks at one book, its first line and a standout section where there's a lesson to be learned about writing.
Dissecting writers' language, genre and how their work fits into a greater context can help us understand other people and ourselves. x
George Orwells depressing deep dive into the mind of an Incel poet can teach us plenty about clear writing, creativity, and the difference between art, advertising and propaganda. It also helped me realise that even Orwell is human, someone who worked on ideas and got better over time. Read it only if you've already read 1984, Wigan Pier, Paris and London, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and his essays but before Burmese Days..
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Do you want to get everything you ever wanted & live your best life? Then you're going to have to read hard, wide & free.
Together, let's learn how to read & write by analysing the best works ever written, and then some.
How do writers do it - keep readers turning the page until they finish the book or throw it across the room?
Each episode looks at one book, its first line and a standout section where there's a lesson to be learned about writing.
Dissecting writers' language, genre and how their work fits into a greater context can help us understand other people and ourselves. x
