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A novelist's desk once featured predictable tools: typewriter, paper, pencils for edits, perhaps a thesaurus within arm's reach. Virginia Woolf had her standing desk; Hemingway his portable Remington.
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Writing Team: Mar 24, 2025 10:57:33 AM
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Writing Team: Sep 23, 2024 6:30:00 AM
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Virginia Woolf, like many writers, was haunted. Not by a specter of the night, but by a question that has plagued creatives for centuries: Can one be...
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