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First Draft - George Saunders (Returns Again)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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I Feel Like Your Stomach Drops

I think the writer is most like a roller coaster designer, that the idea is not anything other than for you to get off the roller coaster and go on again maybe. For the writer, I think the first goal is to just stun, then probably all this other stuff we're talking about will have happened. So I hope that's what the book does, you know, it points along the way and maybe at the end. Yeah, and I feel like your stomach drops.

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