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First Draft - George Saunders (Returns Again)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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How Do You Get Your Somatic Intelligence?

I used to write it work a lot when the first book really was written at work. I would get a kind of a buzz that I sort of associate with meditation and that doesn't happen anymore. Now it's almost just like I just turn the body off and I'm just sitting there for hours at a time. Although one thing is I know like I always added on the page rather than on the screen and that has something to do with just a vision you know? When I have a line to cut I always get the ruler and make this nice brisk line through it. There's also something really nice about the tactile feeling of crossing something outlike I have this little ruler that I broke

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