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Like a Good Pair of Jeans, This Writing Advice Only Gets Better With Time

Like a good cheese, wine, or pair of well-worn blue jeans, some things get better with time. For me, Anne Lamott’s “Shitty First Drafts” can also be lumped into this category.

I can still hear the collective gasp and stifled laughter when our high school English teacher referred to it over two decades ago. At first, the relevance of her nod to this classic essay was ignored

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