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If you want to write, and you ain't writin', why not?


As a writer, I was told that I should simply write and write some more. I was afraid my grammar was bad, and I had made an F on a theme in college I never forgot, and had no confidence that I could write a sentence. As an attorney I wrote briefs but I felt they were no good. But I kept writing, and soon lost my fear, realizing that this next piece wasn't going to win a Pulitzer. It wasn't that terribly important, so I finally relaxed and let it flow, and flow it did. After a million words, several novels, successful ghostwriting, I just "let her rip" and worry about editing later. Now I get almost as much joy editing my work as I did writing, and there is no rush like having the words flow through me---and they flow as I am a kind of conduit--and I get products. I can teach writing now. I know that every person has a book in him or her that is crying to get out, and I simply say--"write it." Get it out of you. It can always be fixed to perfection later. Few artists give birth to the work in perfect form. If you cannot write it for one reason or another, get it written by a professional. Don't delay. You are unique, and your idea will perish with you if you don't preserve it. I can tell you how to do it." 727 667 1191. .

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