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>> Liliana Rossman: I write myself into an argument.
I start -- I just sit down and start, you know,
hacking away at the keyboard.
And it's a process of writing and writing
and writing and rewriting.
And I'll start with who knows what.
And then at the end of maybe a page or a page and a half,
I'm thinking, "Oh, okay.
So this is where I'm going", you know.
And then I go back and pretend
that I knew the whole time where I was going.
It's -- and it's not that the words just reveal themselves
to me, but I think that I need to just --
for me, I just need to get into it.
I need to start playing because I may think about it a lot
or I talk about it with others,
explain to them what it is that I'm doing.
And it sounds great, and then when I sit down to write it,
I thought, "Ooh, how did I say that?"
And, you know the [brief laughter] --
I think it sounds great.
People say to me, "Oh, that's very interesting."
So I think I'm making inroads.
I think I'm explaining it to --
in a way that others can understand.
And so that's my process, you know.
I write, and then rewrite a lot.