First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing First Draft - Melissa Febos
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Mar 27, 2017 
Melissa Febos discusses using writing to confront intense emotions, choosing 'Abandon Me' for her work, exploring trauma transmission, finding inspiration in literary passages like 'Written on the Body', and navigating escapes, feedback, rejection, and resilience in writing.
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Writing As Emotional Faucet
- Melissa Febos writes to
Title Came Before The Draft
- Febos stuck the title "Abandon Me" on an index card and kept it on her kitchen wall for years before writing the book.
Agency Revealed Through Revision
- Writing made Febos see that she had chosen painful relationships and thus had agency in her suffering.