In this season-ending episode, I’m talking about returning.
Sometimes a draft changes when you look again. Sometimes the draft hasn’t changed at all—you have.
In this episode, I reflect on my own return to writing sixteen years after publishing Galaxy, what editing has taught me about attention, why returning to the same material is not failure, and how form often reveals itself through repetition, echo, and looking again.
I also share a simple three-part practice for returning to a draft with your ear, your body, and the place where the writing still holds a little pressure.
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