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On not knowing

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Maggie Mackellar
Feb 12, 2024
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Summer in all its glory last week.

This morning, I pulled out a draft manuscript of a novel I planned to take to an online writing workshop. It’s a novel based on my childhood growing up with a brother who has no spoken language. I had to find ten pages I could work with. I thought this would take me ten minutes. But oh it was awful. So much worse than I…

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