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What impresses — and consoles me — about these over-the-top tales of revision behind successful writing is the commitment of these writers to push themselves and their willingness to jettison reams of copy in search of an acceptable version.

The first tricksy thing is finding a balance of clueing in some of the past without making the book FEEL like a sequel….So, for those of you who write stuff that are discrete stories set in a single universe, how do you maintain that balance, or do you assiduously avoid letting works cross-pollinate? As a reader, what strategies of this sort makes you crazy?

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