Tianna Grace
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Cornelia Funke:
Hi Cornelia! So I want to be a writer but I am having a very hard time even finishing one chapter. I have lots of Idea's but every time I sit down to right I can never get far before I 1 think its stupid. 2 just can't finish. 3 lose my thought. Do you have any advise for me? I just want to finish one draft of my books but I can't seem to finish a thought!
Cornelia Funke
Oh, you're dealing with the inner censor, Tianna! And with your pride! You're worried you'll write something bad. Why? You have to - every first draft is terrible! Sometimes even the tenth is! Writing feeds on passion and time, on your curiosity about the world and this existence. You need to be fearless as a writer, and humble. You need to feed that longing to write. Just do it. And that polish and change and rewrite and work on your words, as if they were clay. And give yourself a few years! Artists don't grow fast!:)
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