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Creative Nonfiction [2]
9.2.21

“One of the big influences for me early on was Janet Frame,” says Alexander Chee in an interview with Lincoln Michel [3] for his How-to series published in Fold magazine. “She would hand-write a draft of a novel entirely. Then typing it up was one revision. Then she would type it up again, and that was another revision. I decided to try it and actually really enjoyed it.” This week, pull out a notebook or legal pad and your favorite writing utensil to start an essay about a time you were influenced by another artist or writer. Was there a particular process or style that changed your writing?


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