Claire Donald
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And she, this is for my writer girlies test.
She didn't really have a clear way of writing.
She would just write out parts and sections and then she would pin it to her walls and
And that's the way her novel came together.
So you have an empty apartment with just like a portable typewriter and just like parts of a novel all over the wall.
Oh, with like a glass of whiskey perhaps?
Probably.
And like cigarettes everywhere.
I bet.
Was she a smoker?
Oh, yeah.
Big smoker.
Her whole life?
Yeah, actually.
I think she – and towards the end of her life, she had like five cigarettes a day.
just like Jackie Kennedy.
It's still, everything still is flowing into each other, you know?
We're not ready to let them go quite yet.
We're really not.
Okay, so during this time, while she's working on her novel, she was introduced to this man, John Gregory Dune.