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First Draft - Lauren Groff (Returns)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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How to Keep the Golden Jolt in Writing

I think what can be challenging for writers, as you have this electric, golden jolt, how do you keep it when you're writing? That is an immense challenge. It's a different kind of maintenance of energy. And by doing that, i have to trick myself often. I think sometimes you need to make your brain less intelligent than the story in order to get the story out. Some of the tricks that i use are actually truly tricks, and i'm trying to fool myself into gettingt the way.

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