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On Reading - How to Write, What to Write, and Why to Write
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If you want to write, you are going to have to read. I know this goes against the "anyone can write/anything is better than a blank page" ethos of ELA, but hear me out. Writing is not the only hobby out there, and it might be that you are actually more suited to something else instead. And that's pe...
On Inspiration - Stealing and Borrowing, But in Space!
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Sometimes, it can be hard to get started. You have a blank piece of paper (or blank screen) in front of you, and you just don't know what you are going to say to fill it.
That's okay! The secret is that you are not starting from nothing and trying to create a whole new thing that has never been se...
On Ideas - No Ideas, Losing Ideas, and Used Ideas
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People often overthink ideas.
Sometimes, they lament that they will never have an idea good enough to write a whole book about. But that's often not how stories come together. Sometimes, they will slowly grow by combining multiple different smaller ideas one at a time over successive drafts, until...