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All good writing is built one good line at a time.
Kate Braverman
The idea of writing practice is a new concept to many who want to write.
Judy Reeves
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac
Smell is the one sense that can evoke complete memories...
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The idea of writing practice is a new concept to many who want to write. Sure, everybody knows pianists have to train. So do dancers, actors, singers, and athletes. Even artists have sketchbooks, which serve as their practice pages. But there seems to be some vague notion that somewhere deep inside the desire to be a writer is the inherent knowledge of how to go about it. As many a bloody-fingered would-be writer, hip-deep in wadded up paper and frustration can attest, this just ain't so.
Natural talent and all the breaks in the world notwithstanding, to become good at anything you've got to do the drills. Lots of drills. To quote Mick Jagger, "You have to sing every day so you can build up to being, you know, Amazingly Brilliant."
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