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Naomi Novik on THE LAST GRADUATE

Poured Over

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Character, Plot and World All Grow at the Same Time

For me, character, plot and world all grow at the same time. I start with that first line ans like, i decided rinlek had to die. After the second time he saved my life. Immediately i'm interested and like, well, why do you want him dead? You know, it immediately tells me something about l. And then l trying to get her room clean. Even as i write that scene, i write a sentence, and it tells me hin about the world. In a way,.  I sort of ask myself at every step, what does this tell me about the world? So knowing that this monster was here, knowing that orion's

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