Against what so many people believe, there are writers who just knock out their book as they go. Outlining? Whiteboarding? Nah. E. L. Doctorow was one of those. He told The Paris Review that Ragtime didn’t start because of deep research or a carefully plotted idea. It was really just an accident: I was so …
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Published on March 10, 2024 05:00