I won't write about the things that I'm not personally interested in, but I will write about

things that scare me because I think that that makes them all the less scary in the final analysis

because I'm able to work out on the page. And by the way, talking about rough drafts and the

cutting room floor and the editors and all of that, I do believe in just letting go and writing absolutely anything and everything that comes to your mind in the first draft

and not being afraid of how it's going to come out or what have.

You can always go back.

You can always cut things.

You can always edit things out.

And invariably, those things will happen if an editor gets their hands on it.

This particular manuscript, it had been published in the original form that's submitted to the publisher.

It would have been maybe 50% longer than what it is.

So there was a lot that ended up on the cutting room floor from this particular novel.

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Hello, fellow do graders and friends. I'm your host, Karina Belizzi. Over the course of the last

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that we've covered even from episode one of this very podcast, to issues finding solace

when we really need a firm landing place, often resulting in deportation and more displacement

for those that have really experienced incredible loss and trials and tribulations

over the years. So today we're going to dive into the personal side of a story like that through

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