Wallace Stegner has published thirteen novels, three short-story collections, sixteen nonfiction titles, and has edited eighteen works in the fifty-three years he has been publishing books. I go through that with an editing pencil and retype it to make a relatively clear second draft.” It takes me many rewritings to get a first draft, and all the chapters that went into it have been thrown away successively until I get something that will read consecutively. Stegner apologized that his markings are not more revealing: “My methods are prelapsarian and prewordprocessarian.
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