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Off The Ground: A Journo Logs Writing His First Book, Part II

Bogged down by an allegiance to article-writing, our magazine vet/aspiring author struggles to draft his book's chapters

By Greg Lindsay – October 26, 2007
In our new AG AvantGuild series, freelancer Greg Lindsay discusses writing his first book. He's filing monthly dispatches detailing the struggles and successes of writing the first draft of Aerotropolis, due this spring. In this second installment, he describes the "growing pains" he feels transitioning from magazine-speak to book-length prose.
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