
Selected Essays | Anne Fadiman on Virginia Woolf
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The Dilemma of Writers
I was talking to a former student of yours and they said that you have this division between different kinds of writers. Are they the sort who would become paralyzed or blocked? Couldn't go on to the second sentence unless they had already made the first one pretty much perfect I don't know about you classic swamp driver, but for me my writing starts with me just jotting down free thoughts in an outline like form But by the time he gets to his tenth draft is absolutely gorgeous so my main message to my students is that you pretty much have to embrace who you are You shouldn't let anybody say that you should be the other type.
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