How To Become a Masterful Writer, With John Gardner

Rob Marchant
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readFeb 26, 2019

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John Gardner — Image from Writer’s Write

It’s difficult to find someone more refreshingly forthright, and with such clarity of expression, than American writing teacher John Gardner. After a long and successful teaching career, Gardner penned a book on how to write great stories — The Art of Fiction — which is held in high acclaim for its precision and effectiveness as a writing guide. As the title suggests, the book’s primary goal is to…

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