#writing-process

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We write to embrace the sacred thoughts.

Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

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Manuscript rejections might tempt you to quit writing or querying. Don't.

T.N. Suarez, The Limbo Tree

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People wonder why you choose certain subjects to write about. The truth is: you don't really. They choose you

Sebastian Faulks

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At times you have to fight really hard to remember it. Fight within your mind’s dungeons and bring it out alive before it could have been killed and buried forever by the demons living deep down inside your mind’s dungeons.

Avijeet Das

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When writing, I uncage KAT: Keep Adding Tension. Even if I don't know where the story's going, petting the KAT keeps it purring.

Don Roff

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Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of restoration, an undertaking where he or she explores that private psychic space of the self. In this mystical state of heightened awareness, the writer investigates the soul’s grievances, and diagnoses and treats their grim afflictions.

Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

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It’s easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What’s difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book, you can write.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana