First Draft - EJ Levy
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Cape Doctor, a Novel by a Writer Wolf
The book is based on a real person who went by the name james miranda berry. The premise is this young woman named margaret, in the 18 hundreds in england. She wanted life of the mind, and she couldn't have it. So she disguised herself as a man and excelled at medical school. And that's, that's in your story, and that's in real life. How did you alight on this and realize that you had to tell the story? Almost ten years ago, my now partner, mi, now i husband, and were in capetown. I really felt like i had a voice in my head saying, commenting on things,.
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