
Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects
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Writing a Novel - The First Draft Is the Party
I like the idea of splitting the difference in a way, we need ter give ourselves permission to be swoopers in the first draght, and then the discipline to be bashers in every draft that comes after. I think it took me a long time to sort of realize that that was one of the ways you build a character. It's just like what it's making, what the characters know. It's making their knowledge. For me, probably whis pri crosses over with with things your audience wants to hear. But the research i do once i have a draft, or part of a draft, i always think of the book as having its own form of attention. That doesn't really
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