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<blockquote class="thequote">So you go off and take as long as you need to churn out
a first draft. I think this took me a couple of months. Only about
three days were spent actually writing. The other fifty seven were
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how to do it. That’s me. Some people write every day, just pounds and
pounds of words. I do a lot of work in my head and then just shit it
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