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Indigenous writer describes the messy reality of drafting fiction

Original: “I'll be happily writing along and then the characters will do something and then I'll have to shift everything. My proc

A First Nations writer from British Columbia has described the unpredictable nature of her creative process, saying she will be writing steadily only for her characters to take a different direction, forcing her to rework everything. 'My process is messy. There's nothing clean about my mind,' she said, in remarks circulating among readers of Indigenous and mythological fiction.

Why now: Writers and readers are responding to a candid, relatable account of how fiction drafting rarely goes to plan.

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• “I'll be happily writing along and then the characters will do something and then I'll have to shift everything. My process is messy. There's nothing clean about my mind.” # Indigenous # FirstNations # BC # books # mythical https:// windspeaker.com/news/windspeak… · Windspeaker@mstdn.ca · 4

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