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  • Little Red Riding Hood.

  • Let's start the story a different way.

  • It was dark inside the wolf.

  • Human beings are creative storytelling beings.

  • They make art because that's what human beings do.

  • As a writer, your goal is to keep your reader believing

  • in your story even though both of you know it's fiction.

  • When I wrote The Handmaid's Tale,

  • nothing went into it that had not happened in real life

  • somewhere at sometime.

  • The reason I made that rule is that I didn't want anybody

  • saying you certainly have an evil imagination,

  • you made up all these bad things.

  • I didn't make them up.

  • If you really do want to write and you're

  • struggling to get started, you're afraid of something.

  • Remember, it's only you and the page.

  • The waste paper basket is your friend.

  • It was invented for you by God.

  • People are always coming up with new theories of the novel,

  • but the main rule is hold my attention.

  • Any form of human creativity is a process

  • of doing it and getting better at it.

  • You become a writer by writing.

  • There is no other way.

  • So do it, do it more.

  • Do it better.

  • Fail.

  • Fail better.

  • Somewhere out there, there are the readers for your book.

  • I'm Margaret Atwood, and this is my MasterClass.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

Little Red Riding Hood.

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