For Elizabeth McCracken, writing a novel requires attention to matters as small as punctuation and as capacious as the imagined world her characters inhabit.

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The novelist and writing tutor delivers bracing advice that demolishes familiar ‘stick to what you know’ nostrums Trope, POV, backstory, character arc. In the 30 years since I was a student of that ...

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