Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Amateur Writers vs Professional Authors
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"This stupid bitch" was a fascinating writer
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When Do We Give Up on Writing?
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'A Sort of Strangeness Among People'
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Why Can't You Write About Flowers, Trees and Stars?
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Different Emotions In Different Languages
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Good Old Laughter In Times of Sadness
Humour….
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What One Thousand and One Nights Can Teach Us Today
“You must have grown up with different stories in Turkey,” said an American scholar to me many years ago.
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Writers and Mental Health Struggles:
Wounds Into Healing Words
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Homo sapiens or Homo narrans?: Storytelling Tribe
This novel is the work of a junior sc…
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You Are An Essential Piece In The Puzzle
You are not an isolated entity,
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We Are What We Read
A poet, a writer, and a mythical bird.... let me tell you a story from olden times....
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We Read. We Write. We Belong.
You write a story based on a specific time,…
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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak
Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak
Stories, anecdotes, wise proverbs and foolish thoughts, literary musings, insights and conversations centred around my personal, unpublished notebooks
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