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Quote of the day

May 4, 2022 Mike 10 Comments

“My mother was a potter. All my life I was around that. The first draft, that’s the hard part. That’s going out and digging clay. Revision is where you finally get to chuck that son of a bitch on the wheel and make something.”

David Joy, author of Where All Light Tends to Go

Me too. Getting that first draft out is tough, but I find revision exhilarating.


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