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- One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling.
- I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
- If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
- That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
- But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by 'identify,' I mean see the world through…
- I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same…
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