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Inciting joy with Ross Gay

The TED Interview

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Do You Have a First Draft of a Book?

Do you get a kind of a first draft in sitting down to write it the first time? Or do you have a bunch of fragments that are floating around for weeks or months, and you start stitching them together? Yeah, it can happen a handful of ways. It can, periodically, it'll happen where a draft comes, periodically. Always, it happens that the first draft is like a first of many drafts, many, many drafts.

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