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"During my first year of serious writing, I labored under the conceit I was writing a book....only after I revised the book multiple times did I begin to understand what was happening: THE BOOK WAS WRITING ME." - Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew

"The stories write us." --Jack Masterson, The Wishing Game (Meg Shaffer)

I wish I'd read this book years ago.

“A published work is deceptively clean and not a reliable window onto the author’s process. Every great work of literature sits atop journals, notes, drafts, and reader comments...Most published authors aren’t unusually smart...They simply work hard, over long periods, through tremendous chaos...” - Elizabeth Jarrett Andrew