
First Draft - Akwaeke Emezi
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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How Did Reading Romance Novels Change You?
No, not really. I think less common for writers to end up writing things than those that challenge their own i corbes. In this case, in thist case, i most like, ok ha, ta make sense, because it all came from my imagination. What is a book that you you mention that that writing didn't change you as much as reading something that really changed you? Oddly, i think it's when i started reading romance again as an adult. Chloe brown has a chronically ill protagonist. And that blew my mind, only because we understand romance to be the fantasy of a happy re ever after. It just opens up so much more possibility for what love can hold
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