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My Year Without Writing single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 My Year Without Writing
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'My mother wrote in hieroglyphics. Every morning she would greet the first faint light with her notebook, her pen and her Bible. She believed this sacred writing time was the source of her strength. Pages and pages covered in indecipherable shorthand, learned at secretarial school and then refined into a personal code.' (Publication abstract)

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  • Epigraph: I started keeping a diary twenty-five years ago. It’s eight hundred thousand words long. – Sarah Manguso

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    y separately published work icon Kill Your Darlings no. 25 April 2016 9520067 2016 periodical issue 2016 pg. 112-122
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