21. Dean Wesley Smith, international bestselling author on clean first drafts and danger of rewrites

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Dean was the first writer to ever be awarded by Writers of the Future 35 years ago. He is now an international bestselling author in multiple genres and talks about how we are now in the NEW pulp era of publishing and the importance of writing clean first drafts and the downside of rewrites.

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