Tag: draft

  • July 14, 2015

    July 14, 2015

    I usually rewrite a book a total of eight or nine times. Sometimes more. When I’m done, I take all of those drafts and I pile them up and put them in a box and I take them to the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota. They archive the drafts. They make them available…

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  • June 17, 2014

    June 17, 2014

    So, I’m working on this novel. Actually, I’ve been working on this novel for quite some time. But finally–and at last–I have a complete draft of it. On Friday, I printed up that complete draft and I put it to the left of my computer and I opened up a new file and I started…

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