
Curtis Sittenfeld on “Romantic Comedy”
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How to Write a Book That Reflects Your Journey
I'm the kind of writer that their mothers read while recovering from knee surgery to be clear I'm mocking neither of my readers nor myself here it took a long time but eventually I stopped seeing women as inherently ridiculous. How much of that do you think reflects your journey and how much do you think this book reflects that journey okay well so one thing I'll tell you like so I wrote that in 2017 which she's actually this is like the third book I've had so I probably thought like how many books has she written seven it's funny I was probably like magic writing seven books or whatever"
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