The Importance of Sound in Writing

I relate to this sense of writing slowly, line by line, and having to have the thing sound right in order to even move on. I think there were early drafts of this book that maybe got a little too carried away with that. And part of the revision process was kind of learning when to really lean into the lyrical aspects of the novel. "There can be a lot of power and beauty to a simple sentence"

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