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009. My Writing Process (opens the original)
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Hello, my friend!Happy (almost) Fall! It’s been a little while. Well, more like a long while. So long that Substack had to send a verification code to my email for me to log in and draft this post. (I guess they’re called articles now, huh? I have indeed been absent.) Anyway, I’m about to start putting together my next book, which is going by the code name Project Candle. This will be my fifth book and fourth full-length novel. By now I think I’ve discovered a writing process that works for me,
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