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Bonner Litchfield Read a lot. Write in the style you like to read. A lot.
Rinse and repeat.
Bonner Litchfield I don't keep a list. Call it impulse reading.
Would like to read some old James Cain hard boiled novels. Maybe Zane Grey as well.
Bonner Litchfield If I waited for inspiration, I'd never get anything done. I have to put my butt in the chair and start writing whether I'm feeling it or not.

The paradoxical other side to the above is that I try to have fun with it.
Bonner Litchfield One full length novel (not yet published anywhere) came from the corporate insanity I experience as a software developer.

A thought hit me: It's as if this guy's been planted here to drain money and resources...Hey! book idea.
Bonner Litchfield A short story that's taking a long time to tell.
Bonner Litchfield Sit down.
Write a sentence.
Ignore the screaming voices in my head that insist I'm writing crap.
Write the next sentence.
Keep going for a least half a page. It all adds up.

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