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First Draft - Maggie Smith

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

CHAPTER

How to Write a Memoir

Early in the book you have a chapter called a note on foreshadowing. So can you talk about plot and how, you know, both craft wise for memoir like it is our life. It's not a plot and you write later like it's not about the plot. It's just about what it means. And why was this idea of plot so interesting to you that it was something you came back to throughout the book? I think probably because I was approaching this book as a poet so plot is not been on my list of things to make. Like I haven't needed that.

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