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First Draft - Charles Baxter (Returns!)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Wonderlands Are Gendered Wonderland for Men

There is something in nature of fiction and dreaming that makes wonderlands important to think about. And once you are there, things happen according to a logic which you can't quite discerna. There are no wise uncles or aunts who will tell you why things happen in the way they do. They just happen in a certain way. It's as if it's as if objects in this world are in some sense looking at you, or i should, looking at the protagonist of the story. Sometimes these wonderlands are gendered n in movies, a fight club is a gendered wonderland for men. And the black swan, which about ballet, is a sort of gendered

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