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How to Write a Novel About a Photographer
I knew that Mia was going to be a visual artist of some kind, and photography was the one that I kept coming back to partly because it seems like it would be so objective to an outsider. The photographs were only a vague approximation of what she wanted to express. She soon found herself not only altering the prints, with everything from ballpoint pen to splashes of laundry detergent, but experimenting with the camera itself. Creating the art was really fun, a kind of fun that we don't always get to have in writing. We think there's this bolt of inspiration, and then you sit down and you start typing. And a lot of it for me is sort of more nuts and
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