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It’s no easy task convincing writers to show up to a party of perfect strangers.
Writers tend to be insular characters, people who at their worst play into a caricature of what it means to “be a writer” (hint: the more you talk about your writing, the less likely you are to do it) and who at their best balk at the moniker of “wr…
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