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Abdulrazak Gurnah, author of 'Afterlives' - 2021 Nobel Prize winner discusses distractions, why reading is as important as writing, and needing blank walls

Writer's Routine

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How to Prepare for a Period of Seven or So Weeks

How much do you like to know about your story before you sit down and start typing? Yeah, quite a bit because I like to know quite a bit. They need my view that some stages we were into as I mean to the lighting. It's sort of like might be an episode, that episode, and another episode, which will not be exactly following one on from the other until some kind of shape begins to impress itself.

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