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First Draft - Best of 2021 Ben Okri

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Writing a Story Is a Double Detective Story

In the in the writer's mind, ideas are tactile ideas of things. Ideas ar ideas are characters. So for me, writing that story was a double detective story. Was detective story in itself and it was the detection by which i a induced the story to come to me. A tone is very import to me. It has to do with beat, m it has toDo with a a certain inner poetry. I have to hear those opening sentences and theyn sudlen, that whole world is lit, lit inwardly, in a mute sort of way. That's how i worked with this story. Anda, for me, always say this,  for me, it

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