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http://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/Lynn-Sloan-1-226x300-1.jpeg226300Reasons to Hurry Up with that First Draft By Lynn Sloan Writing a novel takes time. Between writing the opening line on the first draft to typing END on its last page, months and usually years have elapsed. For most of us writers, planners or pants-ers and those in between, the first draft involves false […]