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How to finish a draft

How to finish a draft

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Sophie Mackintosh
Jun 04, 2024
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I have been working on my novel-in-progress for almost three years now, and finished a new full draft of it two days ago. I’m writing a book for the fifth! time, and every time is infuriatingly different, but some patterns have emerged over the 13 years since I started attempting to write them.

This is how, these days, various drafts get written:

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