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    Where to begin? Write, throw away the first ten or so pages of story, that primed the pump. Use your expository intro as story outline and put in the back or trash. If you can’t answer whether it’s plot or characters which form the story. Stop. Learn that LY is hideous and the bastion of the weak. It’s okay to lift bits and ideas from your reading. Wait until you’ve forgotten the source and you won’t be stalled by fear of derivative. Write your darlings, kill them later

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Where to begin? Write, throw away the first ten or so pages of story, that primed the pump. Use your expository intro as story outline and put in the back or trash. If you can’t answer whether it’s plot or characters which form the story. Stop. Learn that LY is hideous and the bastion of the weak. It’s okay to lift bits and ideas from your reading. Wait until you’ve forgotten the source and you won’t be stalled by fear of derivative. Write your darlings, kill them later

-Miles Long

 

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