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Ernest Hemingway said, “Put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.” The key to writing well is to get rid of everything that doesn’t work. This means killing most of your ideas, even if they have been written down. Writers who have a fear of getting rid of their work are the ones who don’t write at all.
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