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From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction
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October 9, 2026

From Dud to Delicious: Deesha Philyaw on Raising the Stakes in Fiction

This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. In 2006, when I started writing the book that would eventually become my debut novel The True Confessions of First Lady Freeman, I shared my first, tentative pages with a

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