First Draft - Alice McDermott (Returns Again!)
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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How Do You Get Away From Writing?
A, i think there's something about the enclosed mind space off composing a novel that i'm always reluctant to leave. I'd like to have it hermetically sealed - just me and the characters and my imaginary reader for as long as possible. How do you deal with rejection? "F u ke m" A fm is your favorite word; perhaps we can popularize it by implying how much it sounds like sexual. Post is a wonderful word,. especially now think of all the meanings it has, and how we long for, we long for post pandemic am. And when you engage with the word post within a text, that's also a nice one.
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