Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader. He or she will recognize his or her life and truth in what you say, in the pictures you have painted, and this decreases the terrible sense of isolation that we have all had too much of. Anne Lamott
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If you want to become a writer, you need to be conscious. In order to write really well, you have to stop thinking about the story as a plot and start thinking about each scene as a chance to show what kind of person the character is. You have to forget about your characters’ motives and instead care about how they feel and where they come from.

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