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First Draft - Maggie Smith

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

CHAPTER

How to Write a Book That Changes Your Life

The impetus for this book is I guess the downfall of your marriage that you discovered that your husband was having an affair, which kind of made you look at something bigger and like how has our relationship truly been. Some of those sort of craft moves for me enabled me to write the more difficult parts because they allowed me to create a little bit of distance between me the person and what was happening in the book.

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