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First Draft - Peter Ho Davies (Returns)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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The Importance of Patience in First Drafts

"We tend to rush certain things, while we tend to be in flight from making difficult choices that might complicate a story," he says. "I have pep theory about what i call ground hog day revision - if we don't finally finish a story, get to that point of dunness, wer may be destined, or possibly even doomed", the author adds. The grand odad idea is based on this circular issue where we generate new first draughts without ever quite bringing any of those stories to completion.

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