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The Art of Writing Unlikeable Characters, featuring Ben Purkert

Memoir Nation

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The Long Revision Process

Ben Cohen: I wrote the first draft of this novel really quickly. And then I spent almost a decade revising it. The revisions were more about trying to get these characters to come alive, he says. "My own understanding of the novel evolves as history has taken place and as I've grown and aged"

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