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Refuse to be Done: The art of creative persistence for long-haul projects

Deviate

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Travel Writing in the Third Person

Travel writing is about admitting your own point of view. The same thing you're doing it the third person is part of the reason i'm mostly a novelist. I mostly write fiction in the third person now, although my first novel is in verse. And there must be a similar kind of tactic in first person, like admitting what you don't know and giving other people their own agency on the page.

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