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Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.Stephen King
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Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.Don Roff
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Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.Don Roff
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When you print out your manuscript and read it, marking up with a pen, it sometimes feels like a criminal returning to the scene of a crime.Don Roff
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've forgotten. As someone said, one writes mainly to rewrite, for rewriting and revising are how one's mind comes to inhabit the material fully.Ted Solotaroff