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What is the book about? Is it about her life?

Jon Stephens It's a combination of small excerpts from her life with some random prose thrown in. If you've read "On Writing" by Steven King, it's the same sort of…moreIt's a combination of small excerpts from her life with some random prose thrown in. If you've read "On Writing" by Steven King, it's the same sort of thing... But with fewer direct tips and a bit more metaphor.(less)

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anyone could explain to me "Which is the work in which he hasn't surrendered, under dire difficulty, the best thing he meant to have kept? In which indeed, before the dreadful done, doesn't he ask himself what has become of the thing all for the sweet sake of which it was to proceed to that extremity?"

Ginger why you wouldn’t want to save a piece of writing or an idea about writing (or art) for another book (or canvas)

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