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A writer always writes.
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A migraine is the cockblock of writing.
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Migraine
Writing
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Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.
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Efficiency
Panic
Procrastination
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A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.
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Bad Writing
Writing
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It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
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Time
Novelists
People
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Writing a story, regardless of length, begins always with a single word.
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Length
Stories
Writing
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The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.
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Art
Movement
Recipes
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Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.
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Surprise
Torture
Writing
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Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
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Block
Ice Cream
Writing
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Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.
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Fear
Creativity
Self
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If you treat your characters like people, they'll reward you by being fully developed individuals.
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Character
People
Rewards
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But people in a small town tend to do a lot of talking, even when they don’t know what they’re talking about.
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People
Talking
Towns
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Always work with/surround yourself with people who help make you a better version of you. Kindly avoid those who don't.
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Helping
People
Surround Yourself
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You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.
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Everyday
Shows
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Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.
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Assuming
Creative
Students
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Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.
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Expectations
Sometimes
Trying
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It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
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Imagination
Hook
Land
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When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.
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Fun
Naked
Writing
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Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.
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Running
Reality
Years
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Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.
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Fiction
Scare
Writing
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Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.
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Bradbury
Conversation
Rays
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When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.
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Crime
Criminals
Sometimes
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Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.
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Character
Doors
Feet
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There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.
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Journey
Errors
Writing
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If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.
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Character
Heart
Writing
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