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In previous episodes, our podcast has said over and over again that one of the best ways to improve your writing is to read a lot: read more books. But instead of learning from books, too many fledgling writers learn to write primarily from movies, television and video games, and their writing suffers as a result.
\nMovies and video games can be well-crafted works of storytelling, but when it comes to writing fiction a good movie won\u2019t help you hone your craft as well as a good book will, because written fiction is a unique medium with unique strengths. Mainly, movies and video games are audio/visual media, while fiction has more power to explore the internal and the invisible.
\nIn this episode, Karlo Yeager Rodr\xedguez returns to talk about the special tools written fiction has to offer, and why we must not let these tools gather dust.
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\nRecommended Works:
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\nKurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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\nFranz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
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\nToni Morrison, The Bluest Eye\xa0
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\nGabriel Garc\xeda M\xe1rquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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\nDavid Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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\nMark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves
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\nWilliam S. Burroughs,\xa0Naked Lunch
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\nGeorge Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
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\nHenry James, The Turn of the Screw\xa0
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\nShirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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\nWilliam Goldman, The Princess Bride
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\nHelen Fielding, Bridget Jones’s Diary
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\nCatherynne M. Valente, The Orphan’s Tales series
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\nHerman Melville, Moby Dick
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\nAbout Rite Gud: R.S. Benedict is an author, appearing in Fantasy and Science Fiction and Gardner Dozois’ The Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of The Year’s Best Science Fiction.\xa0Matt Keeley, founder of Kittysneezes, is producing\xa0Rite Gud for KS Media, LLC.\xa0Rite Gud is a Kittysneezes production. If you have questions, comments and concerns, email ritegud – at – kittysneezes – dot – com.\xa0Rite Gud is also on Patreon, at patreon.com/ritegud. Patrons receive access to the official Kittysneezes Discord, exclusive episodes, critiques and more.\xa0
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