The Rough Draft
E.J. ForsbergThis page contains my serialised writing in progress, musings on the craft (often in the form of marginalia), and the peril of dropping the "amateur" from "amateur author"
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I'm a journalist and aspiring author who, having recently turned 30, is now experiencing an early-onset midlife crisis due to never having finished writing a book. This Substack is my unfiltered, probably ludicrous, attempt to do that.
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