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First Draft - Maggie Smith

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

CHAPTER

Unanswerable Questions in a Book

The first draft of this book had a list of had one chapter called a friend says every book begins with an unanswerable question, then what is mine. Structurally kind of deciding where I wanted those to go was another sort of piece piece of the puzzle. The goal ultimately isn't necessarily to quote unquote solve for answer any of these things it's to live through the questions and really sit with them.

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