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I’ve spent a lot of my writing life harbouring under the delusion that my first draft needed to be perfect. Or close enough, anyway. If my first draft was a disaster, I was a failure. I still struggle with this perfectionism, but it’s good to remind myself that my first draft of Dead Ringer was…
My doppelgänger story
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Don’t give ’em a reason to stop reading – Things I learned while writing Dead Ringer
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Dead Ringer – what the bloggers say
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