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S5 Ep43: Ayobami Adebayo, novelist

In Writing with Hattie Crisell

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How to Write a Good Book

"I think it's quite a hazy you know how do you know when you have a draft?" he says. "For me with the first draft it's pretty easy like it means nothing existed before and now I have 100,000 words or 70,000 words." The second draft usually means that I have gone back to the beginning to clean up the draft," writes Greeton author. 'By the third draft I'm thinking about how things connect to each other'

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