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Off the Ground: A Journo Logs Writing His First Book, Part IV

From borrowing from John McPhee to "guarding his headspace" our writer fights to pass the 25,000-word mark

By Greg Lindsay – December 21, 2007
This is the last dispatch you'll see from me for a while, because it's time I bunkered down to write. It feels as if I've written more to date about the writing process than I have for the actual book, even though I'm almost 25,000 words in. So ...
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