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How to Mine Your Nonfiction for Novel Ideas

Sometimes flipping the perspective on your personal essays and articles—and seeing things from someone else's point of view—can lead to inspiration for fiction.

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Rafael Frumkin
Feb 04, 2026
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Later this month at Narratively Academy, Rafael Frumkin will teach a 6-week workshop, From Essays to Novels: Fiction Writing for the Nonfiction Writer. For today’s StoryCraft post, we asked Rafael to share a little about how essay writers can find leads for their fiction.

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