The second time I wasn’t being a writer, I was just responding to a real need, and I was going to write that book whether I was a writer or not. This was a very important thing to learn. Let it come out of you, don’t be apart from it. Sometimes I could watch my hand move. It was almost like automatic writing or spirit writing. That way of doing things is the right way, and the way that produces things of real value, where there’s no separateness between the doer and the done. When that happens, you know it. You just feel it. It’s just, wow. It’s a whole other thing. But it takes a long
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