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Thursday 5 August 2021

The Write Advice 153: AVNI DOSHI

 
I'm a bit stubborn and I don’t like to admit when I’m wrong.  The negative side of that is that even when I’m working on a draft, I’ll be reluctant to give the draft up.  I would try and salvage what I had written.  And it was only many years into writing that I realised that I needed to throw everything away and start from the beginning, and that’s just the way I have to write.  There’s nothing that can be salvaged.  When I throw away a draft the whole thing has to go.  And that took me a long time to come to terms with.  But once I started doing that, it still took me a long time and I still had many terrible drafts that I threw away, but I could see that I was getting closer to what I wanted.
 
Writing tips from our bestselling authors [Penguin Books UK, 15 October 2020]
 
 
 
Use the link below to read the full 2020 interview with Indian-North American writer AVNI DOSHI:



 
 
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