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On letting work happen according to its own schedule.

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Ruth Franklin
Aug 07, 2023
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Dear friends,

I’m in limbo. The first draft of my book manuscript, as I triumphantly told you last month, is complete. The research and the creative work are over, mostly. But the next phase—revising the book and seeing it through to publication—hasn’t really begun. I’m still waiting for feedback from one reader. A final decision needs to be made about t…

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