How To Write Fiction, though, was the genre’s first avowed how-to guide. Like so many aspirational books, it had its origins in America: it had already appeared in cruder form in Chicago, and ...

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Learn and revise the best techniques for writing a piece of fiction with this BBC Bitesize GCSE English Language (Eduqas) study guide.

Learn and revise the best techniques for writing a piece of fiction with this BBC Bitesize GCSE English Language (AQA) study guide.

That methodical "just do it" approach to writing is what got Dalcher here, with a talked-about book, doing newspaper interviews about dystopia, and referring to countries as "markets".

And I’m going to show you how to do that, but first: What kind of book should you write? You have far greater odds of success writing non-fiction than fiction.

And inevitably, people pose the same question: How can you possibly write fiction about politics when the news itself reads like dystopian fiction?