Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak

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Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak
Unmapped Storylands with Elif Shafak
Welcome to my Unmapped Storyland

Welcome to my Unmapped Storyland

The tale of how I got here...

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One of the notebooks behind my next novel-There Are Rivers In The Sky

Writers live a solitary life. You sit at your desk day after day, year after year, staring at a blank page or screen. You build imaginary stories, one word at a time. When you are not writing, you are reading. When you are not reading, you are thinking of writing. 

Being a novelist, in …

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