First Draft - Alice McDermott (Returns Again!)

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Introduction

00:00 • 4min

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First Draft Writers - What About the Baby?

03:38 • 3min

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How Do You Think About Writing a Novel or Short Story?

06:40 • 2min

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Language Is the Voice of Beauty

08:18 • 2min

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What's the Best Bookno, People?

10:15 • 2min

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Music and the Literary Arts

12:02 • 3min

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Is There a Sentence That Leads You on to the Next?

14:35 • 2min

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I Love That Idea From You, Dora Welty

16:57 • 2min

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The Connection Between Writer and Reader

19:20 • 3min

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Would Writing Be Different if You Never Heard From a Reader?

22:24 • 2min

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How to Write a Better First Sentence

24:22 • 3min

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The Mystery of the Writing Process

27:16 • 2min

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Is There One That's the Hardest for You?

29:31 • 2min

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Write Something You Didn't Expect to Write

31:43 • 4min

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You Write About Novels Worth Abandoning and or Salving

35:54 • 3min

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You're a Catholic Writer, but You Write About Faith and Doubt

38:33 • 4min

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What the Creative Artist Does

42:40 • 3min

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Am Pale Horse Pal Rider by Catherine Ann Porter

45:31 • 3min

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Paying Homage to a Pandemic

48:40 • 4min

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How Do You Get Away From Writing?

52:37 • 5min

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First Draft Writers

57:26 • 2min