With a completed handwritten draft, Morrison then types the manuscript on her computer, and the revision process is under way. Part of revising for Morrison involves going away from the work and coming back to it with a fresh eye. As a cautionary tale, she told an interviewer of the time she spent a summer writing fifty pages that she felt were “really first-rate.” Because of other obligations, she wasn’t able to return to the pages for revision until the following winter. “When I read them each page of the fifty was terrible. It was really ill-conceived. I knew that I could do it over, but I
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