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Michael D. Brown You get to create your own world or fix the one you've been dealing with. Good characters, I mean those that are fleshed out, become friends you know …moreYou get to create your own world or fix the one you've been dealing with. Good characters, I mean those that are fleshed out, become friends you know and you either love or hate them but they're real to you.(less)
Michael D. Brown I dislike it when established writers advise that there is no such thing. When you're having trouble getting started, it feels real enough. Of course,…moreI dislike it when established writers advise that there is no such thing. When you're having trouble getting started, it feels real enough. Of course, it's a psychological thing but so is depression, and you've just got to try and beat it by dancing around it and knocking it down, In the case of writing, write anything - a poem, a letter, a song lyric - and let it take you where it will. Pretty soon, you'll have something you can use in your work.(less)
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Bastille Day

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Double or Nothing

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