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The Way It's Supposed to Be

4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions

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“Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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