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S2 - E4 - Christopher Paolini - On Writing, Life, Stardust & Dragons

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Eragon: A Teenage Novel

I was given some advice by my editor when I started out on how to think about my first drafts and her advice basically involved not overthinking the first drafts once they were plotted. So that was something I had to work on myself. And you do have to decide like with me, I had to decide what kind of a writer I wanted to be. Did I simply want to concentrate on the language or did I want to Concentrate on the stories I wanted to tell? Right. There's one of them, like, throughout the series, there's some pieces of wisdom that really, I don't want to give any spoilers, but there is in Eragon, there was quotes when I

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