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My Path to Fiction

by Ken Byalin

Nov 16, 2023
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I am talking about writing fiction. I am talking about my experience writing a novel, and my surprising discovery — surprising to me, at least; I’m sure others discovered this before me — that writing this novel turned out to be an extraordinary Zen practice.

I will get to that next week but first the story of my path. Can you appreciate how surprised I …

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