
First Draft - Peter Ho Davies (Returns)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Do You Have a Manuscript?
I think for me, it's about meaning and understanding. And this sort of paradoxical idea that i know i'm done with a story, i finally understood why i wrote it in the first place. The journey of myself as the writer, along with the story, has come very close to its ending because i now know what i need to know about that story. It's an alien abduction story based on a, if one believes in such things, a true story, at least a true account of an alien abduction. Took place in the sixties to a mixed race couple, white woman, black man, in new england. That story interested me when i first came across it
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