Creative writing: Tips from ten authors (The Guardian)

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There is a writer hidden in everybody ... or not? 
The Guardian asked ten authors-teachers to give some tips to the aspirant writers.

Here's an entree by Jeanette Winterson.

1) I don't give a shit what's in your head. By which I mean if it isn't on the page it doesn't exist. The connection between your mind and the reader's mind is language. Reading is not telepathy.

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