First Draft - Maggie Smith
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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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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