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First Draft - George Saunders (Returns Again)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Writing a Story

I'm a pretty controlling person and I don't like things that aren't nailed down and finished. But in the story you have to be okay with that until the very end, which is for me a great practice because I'm such a control for it. The power of the mind to take this invented make this thing up has got millions of changeable elements. Every word every year million and yet we can kind of process it we can work with it. And then I can take this complex thing send it to you you can read it and start weeping. That's crazyYou know how powerful your mind is. You're never you have to keep all the boxes open until the very last minute

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