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The Comfort of Competence

The Comfort of Competence

Please tell me what to do, Tim Walz

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Sep 04, 2024
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For the last six months or so, I’ve been making slow but steady progress on a first draft of a novel set in a world that looks very much like my own. One of the main characters is Juliet, a woman in her early 60s who is many things: particular, controlling, careful, and more secretive than she appears at first glance. She is also deeply, profoundly comp…

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