Opening the Mailbag With Sabaa Tahir

First Draft Episode #280: Sabaa Tahir

 


Sabaa Tahir is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling An
Ember in the Ashes series, which comes to a much-anticipated
conclusion with the release of A Sky Beyond the Storm on December
1st.


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Links and Topics Mentioned In This Episode




Hear Sabaa’s first episode of First Draft here!




My tweet about revising as ironing, which many people
responded to with wonderful visual metaphors of their own!




Washington Post reporter Emily Wax-Thibodeaux wrote the
article that inspired Sabaa to write An Ember in the Ashes.




The Writer’s Home Companion: An Anthology of the World’s Best
Writing Advice from Keats to Kunitz by Joan Bolker




“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop (poem)




Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. White




Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One &
Never Lets Them Go by Les Edgerton




Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and
for Those Who Want to Write Them by Francine Prose




Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott




 


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