Word: anactive
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Dates: during 1999-1999
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...characterof his friend's mother, a retired geisha, Goldenfound he was writing about the wrong subject andswitched his focus completely. 750 pages went intothe trashcan, and he wrote 800 pages about 35years in the life of a geisha that were declared"dry." Golden then threw out another 750 pages, anact which he called "exhilarating," and then aftera week-long anxiety attack, decided that this wasa story about "a world" and one that needed to betold in the first person. After six weeks ofwriting, Golden developed a voice that mixes thecleverness of a gifted woman with the wide-eyes ofchildhood...
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