John Green: My writing process requires deleting almost the entire draft
Hank and John Green · Complexly: Hank and John Green · Jan 16, 2023 · at 18:25
Author and creator John Green describes his creative workflow and revision process when writing novels.
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“I have a very inefficient process in the sense that I write a draft, and then I delete almost all of it, and that's the only way I know how to write a story.”
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