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Claire Messud on Getting Distance on Characters

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Adelle Waldman on the Lightly Comic

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 20, 2024
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Sunjeev Sahota on Novels as Detective Stories

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 13, 2024
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Steve Almond on the Magic and the Craft of Storytelling

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 6, 2024
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Anne Lamott on Secrets

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 29, 2024
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Marie Mutsuki Mockett on Writing About Sex

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 22, 2024
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Julia Alvarez on Mortality

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 15, 2024
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Lily Brooks-Dalton on Creating Hope

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 8, 2024
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Kiley Reid on Why Fiction Isn’t Activism

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 1, 2024
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Debra Spark on Whether Art Can Truly Help People

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 25, 2024
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Téa Obreht on How She Found The Morningside

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 18, 2024
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Diane Seuss on Discovering Objectivity Through Aging

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 11, 2024
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Sloane Crosley on Staying on the Side of the Living

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 4, 2024
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Temim Fruchter on Learning to Break the Rules

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 26, 2024
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Leslie Jamison on Self-Construction as a Literary Act

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 20, 2024
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Margot Livesey on the Importance of Rhythm

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 12, 2024
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Kaveh Akbar on Questioning Goodness

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 5, 2024
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Ilyon Woo on Not Trying to Force It

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 29, 2024
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Jill McCorkle on Nostalgia

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 22, 2024
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Vanessa Chan on How She Structured The Storm We Made

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 12, 2024
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Antoine Wilson on the Humble Art of Writing

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 8, 2024
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Buzzy Jackson on the Difficulty of Writing Dark Scenes

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 2, 2024
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David James Duncan on Choosing Between Art and Activism

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 22, 2023
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Paul Harding on Receiving Gifts from the Universe

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 18, 2023
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Michael Cunningham on Treating Stories Like Living Things

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 11, 2023
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