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No one is more qualified than you are to write what you want to write.
A sunrise can be as faded as the dying roses on the far edge of the garden, or as lively and fresh as the pink skin of a baby.
Until you name yourself Writer, you will never be a writer.
Make a place for your writing, a sacred place...
How to get started writing? Write.
Natural talent and all the breaks in the world notwithstanding, to become good at anything you've got to do the drills.
"You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant."
~ Mick Jagger
Smell is the one sense that can evoke complete memories...
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- Because you can never hear your work for the first time
- Because you can never be totally objective
- Because you lose perspective after a while
- Because you can never know how your work will affect readers
- Because reading your work to an audience changes it for you
- Because different listeners/readers have different reactions to the same words
- Because you can learn from other writers' reactions as well as their comments
- Because it can bring up questions you didn't know to ask
- Because it can help you pinpoint problems you sense, but cannot identify
- Because your intuition will be confirmed and you'll learn to trust yourself more
- Because it can help you to separate yourself from your work
- Because it helps you develop your own critical sense
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