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A first draft should not be graded good or bad; it is only the material that taste then gets to act on.

Drawn from what George Saunders said

tastewriting
What these subjects mean

taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

writing Prose as thinking: writing well, writing by hand while a model offers to do it, and who will still be able to.

What is taste, and why does it matter now?under our view: Taste shows in what you refuse, and it belongs to one person rather than a committee

What George Saunders actually said

  1. George Saunders American short-story writer and novelist
    Just don’t do it. Accept it, whatever it is, as a starting place in the long game of exerting your taste on your own prose.

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