Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
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Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children - children lie all the time.
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Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent.
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