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The past is prologue

The past is prologue

Even Shakespeare gives prologues a side eye... but you shouldn't

Oct 25, 2024
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Hey, Runners!

Earlier this week, we defined Discovery writing as writing that isn’t part of the book, and one of the reasons we do Discovery writing during our Discovery phase is to make our sketch draft stronger, and all of that is true.

But when we use phrases like “Discovery writing” it sounds like other writing is all known ahead of time, that we don’…

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