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Meg Mason on Writing, Developing Taste, and Tolerance

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

How to Write a Novel in a Different Way

"I think it's the confidence that comes with basic competence," he says. "You're like, this is a thing, this is how it works. It takes a man exactly can." The author admits to writing something horrible in his first novel and being happy to drag it to the trash. He was trying to be clever and literary but ended up tying himself into knots by doing so.

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