Louise Erdrich on THE SENTENCE
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Writing a Book
When you write, are you working in a linear fashion through the story, or do you have moments that you then construct around? It's different with every book. My favourite way to write is having the end in mind. And i think i'm a sentence by sentence writer so that i have to have something like that first excitement, that first discovery of the sentence. Oh, and of course, pruse comes back and forth in the book. One thing she does that she is introducing herself, and she is asked what she reads. And she says, praust, i mean, i did this all the time. I mispronounced every writer everything. So i was.
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