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  "id": 19787128,
  "title": "Everybody’s First Drafts Are Bad",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/13/everybodys-first-drafts-are-bad",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-11-13T08:50:26.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://lithub.com/everybodys-first-drafts-are-bad/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. Your first novel is the crappy scarf you make with acrylic yarn that doesn’t come out straight or even. It looks more like a river on a map than a",
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