Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

Jane Yolen
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a writer is a person who writes. A dancer is a person who dances. A writer is a person who writes. Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry.

Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.

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