Episode 214 - Famous writers show us how to write and live.

Episode 214 - Famous writers show us how to write and live.

April 24, 2026 · 26 min

About this episode

The episode discusses how emulating famous authors can improve writing skills and includes advice and rules from notable writers.

If we emulate famous authors, won't we get better at writing? Here are how some highly-skilled, best-selling authors write and live. Plus: the three dumbest pieces of advice for writers. And: George Orwell's rules of writing. Here is a 20-episode master class on fiction writing—a start-to-finish course covering plot, characters, dialogue, scenes, sentence-level craft, and much more. Each episode is focused and about 30 minutes. The full class—all 20 episodes...

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