What Marian Keyes taught us about finding a voice, creating characters and 'The Fear'

Marian Keyes on subverting clichés and writing past your own self-doubt in her second free online novel-writing class.
What Marian Keyes taught us about finding a voice, creating characters and 'The Fear'

Author Marian Keyes: 'No matter how good they are, everybody is a tiny bit evil.'

Welcome back to writing school.

Last week, Irish popular fiction writer Marian Keyes shared her advice on getting started if you want to write a book and this week she took her own advice and went deeper. Last night during the second class, Keyes showed us how to find our voices, create realistic characters and get over the worst obstacle of all: ‘The Fear’.

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