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The long room took nine drafts
The opening chapter of The Shooter was rewritten nine times before it stopped explaining itself.
30 June 2026 · Deleted scenes
He was good company and structurally fatal. The novel is about testimony, and a sibling gave her a witness she could trust. Cut.
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The opening chapter of The Shooter was rewritten nine times before it stopped explaining itself.
Three weeks of reading rotation-habitat engineering so that one paragraph could sound inevitable.