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Letting the Story Be Bigger Than You

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

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Do You Have an Agent?

Melissa Delfran: I had these two ideas that actually somebody thinking of actionable advice, somebody had told me this great thing. If you're working on a big book project, you need to have a sentence, distill it down into one sentence. So I think for this book, it was Peach Blossom Spring follows the life of Henry Dow and questions whether a life of abundance is possible after a childhood of displacement. The pages are great, but also visibility, because you never know who is reading stuff. And then fall in love with that glimpses of it right? It just means if you're out there, then somebody might find you. There's nothing wrong with your writing

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