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    100 Years of Writer’s Digest

    Oct 30, 2019 2 minutes
    BY KELLY NICKELL

    In the June 2002 WD interview, Isabel Allende shared the method she uses for starting a new novel with former WD editor Kelly Nickell. It’s an interesting approach in both its pragmatism of keeping to a schedule and its superstition. Allende’s new novel, A Long Petal of the Sea, is out this January.

    Chilean author Isabel Allende

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