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Like I promised last week, I’m going to give you a sampling today of what and how some of our best young writers are thinking about their work and when they work.

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In preparation for a lecture I gave at the University of the Philippines last week as a long preface of sorts to the launching of my new novel Soledad’s Sister, I undertook a small, private survey of some friends who had written novels, to find out what their own experiences were.

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