Writing

Drafting The Farther Shore

How a single image of a harbour at dawn became a novel.

Small boats moored along a jetty on calm water beneath soft pink light and distant hills

The first page of The Farther Shore was written in a notebook on a cold harbour wall. It took four years and many drafts to find the rest of the story.

In this note I share what changed along the way, and what stayed exactly the same.

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Elena Marsh

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