"I usually start from a concept, an idea, a form, a question, or a (sub)genre. Never a character or a setting. And I don’t write into nothing; I always have somewhere I’m directing my thoughts."
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On her fiction writing technique in "Carmen Maria Machado: How I Write" in The Writer (2020 Jul 6)
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