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I think having a coach or an editor or whatever the novelist's producer is could help. If you finish a chapter and you turn it in to him, and he or she said, That was pretty good, it might go better. Maybe that's what I'll try to find.

Craig Finn

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Craig Finn
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 22
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