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I wrote for so many years in a bubble, the way everyone does, and there were large swaths of time where you think you're…

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“Write and create what you really feel; it's the only way you can convince your audience that you're worth delving into.”

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I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the…

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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.

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You have to find your tone and work within that to make it as real so the audience can really engage in the story…

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