Welcome back to Hardcore Literature, your favourite book club.

Deep dives into the greatest books ever written, provocative poems, evocative epics, and life-changing literary analyses.

We don't just read the great books, we live them.

Together we'll suck the marrow out of Shakespeare, Homer, Tolstoy and many more.

We'll relish the most moving art ever committed

to the page and stage from every age. Join us and me, your host, Benjamin McAvoy, on the reading

adventure of a lifetime with hardcore literature. Hello and welcome back to hardcore literature.

How are you doing today? I hope you're keeping well and I hope your reading is going well. It's a rainy day here in England we have thunderstorms

roaring across the land, perfect weather for a bookish discussion and we talk about how to read great literature a lot. But today,

we are going to discuss the writing of it. And this is a topic that I have been yearning to dive

into for a very long time. And indeed, there's been quite a bit of interest expressed in the topic of how to write.

Reading and writing are bound up together for many lovers of literature, but the process of

actually writing can often seem to be shrouded in mystery.

Now, what I have found over the years of deep reading and teaching

the great books, what I have found is that these writers leave clues for those who feel a

burning desire to put pen to paper themselves. When you study not only your favorite writers

and great works of literature, when you study not only the works themselves, When you study not only your favorite writers and great works of literature,

when you study not only the works themselves, but you also look into what the writers have

said about the writing process, how they have approached it, you discover some very interesting

patterns. Patterns of creativity, productivity and artistic outpouring emerge.

And today we're going to examine these patterns and these commonalities, because I truly think

that writing is a skill that can be learnt. It is possible to learn to be a good writer. One can study the lessons of history's greatest

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