Want to find your voice? Learn from the best!
In your development as a writer, you've likely been told to develop your
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You'll discover how to:
- Create characters as memorable as Herman Melville's Captain Ahab
- Master point of view with techniques from Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Pick up the pace by keeping your sentences lean like Ernest Hemingway
- Incorporate sensual details like James Bond creator Ian Fleming
- Add suspense to your story by following the lead of horror master
Stephen King
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