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Write What Haunts You: The Urgency of Unsettling Fiction

Author Patrick O’Dowd discusses why it’s important to write what haunts you, as well as the urgency (and importance) of unsettling fiction.

Patrick O'Dowd
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Don’t Write What You Know Until You Know Something.Andrew Case

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