Six things successful writers wish they had known when they started

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‘​If only I’d known…’ is a phrase one hears regularly from experienced and successful artists in many fields.

At this year’s Melbourne Writers Festival, cultural commentator and arts worker Eugenia Flynn and philosopher and author Damon Young sat down with features editor Dina Kluska to discuss what they wish they’d known when starting out in the precarious world of building a writing career.

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