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This reads as an honest description of creative labor. It points to the long middle stage where a draft feels clumsy, disappointing, or hard to trust, and can be taken to mean that improvement is mostly patience plus revision. It lands for anyone staring at an imperfect first version, because it names the discouraging part of making something without pretending it should come easily.
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About Leigh Bardugo
American fantasy author
Leigh Bardugo is an American fantasy author best known for her young adult Grishaverse novels, including the Shadow and Bone trilogy and the Six of Crows and King of Scars duologies. She is also the author of Ninth House, her acclaimed adult debut. Her work has reached beyond the page through screen adaptations of Shadow and Bone by Netflix and Ninth House by Amazon Studios. Bardugo serves as an executive producer on both projects, and her fiction is known for building expansive fantasy worlds across young adult and adult genres.
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Books by Leigh Bardugo
Six of Crows
2015
Shadow and Bone
2020
Ruin and Rising
2014
Siege and Storm
2001
Crooked Kingdom
2016