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Sep 02, 2023
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“Paul Alexis Reading a Manuscript to Emile Zola” (1870), Paul Cezanne

I don’t normally write on paper. Maybe that’s the problem.

I’ve been wrestling with a novel for four years. The earliest draft dates to April, 2019. Since then, if I count drafts, outlines, all the scraps and notes and research files, there’s more than 150,000 words (a typical literary …

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