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First Draft - Best of 2021 George Saunders

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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You Know, You're Not in Control, You Know?

When you'r ruminating stops, your conscious mind thinking. When that goes a little quiet, that other thing comes in. It's there all the time. You just make a little room for it byit by dialling down your thoughts. So i think that's what we're doing when we're writing - concentrating. And if we're concentrating in the right flavor, we're doing something like, we're not deciding,. We're scanning and feeling whether a sentence is right for us or not. Each one of those choices has been given to you by that moment's intuition. The whole job of writing is easy. You don't have to decide anything authoritatively ever. You just

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