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How do you keep going as a writer? Part 1 covered my first-order answer: you re-inspire yourself, day after day. You find the fire for the work that is totally divorced from the current age, the current literary or publishing landscape, the current zeitgeist. From there, I promised more about the concrete craft advice in Alice McDermott's "What About the Baby?" *This podcast is a supplement to The Craft Lab for Writers newsletter. Get full access at craftlabwriters.substack.com/