First Draft - Alice McDermott (Returns Again!)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Would Writing Be Different if You Never Heard From a Reader?
Would writing be a different experience for you if you never ever heard from a reader? That's a great question. Gee, i don't know. I think probably not in some ways. Er, when you're composing a piece of fiction, a your reader is as imaginary as your characters are - hahum. And yet you fully believe in your characters, and you hope a reader will. No, but i always have the sense that there's a reader there. A, it's lovely when that happens. But it always surprises me a little bit too. Its talk about connections,. It's a marvellous connection When some one says something about a book, and then you realize
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