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“Nothing makes you work harder for freedom and clarity than constraint.”

Maggie ate with this book. 10/10. I liked so many things about this one. 😍

And YES to more writing books that discuss the technicalities and doesn’t just dwell on abstracts (I won’t name names 🤣)

“We have all been told show don’t tell at some point - but repetition(refrains and anaphoras) helps us show by the way we tell.”

❤️🥰❤️

“While you are writing a book, it’s yours.

When you publish a book, it belongs to the world.”

❤️🥰❤️

“Taking care of yourself is taking care of your creativity.

Taking care of your self as a whole human being is taking care of the writer in you.”


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“A metaphor is a direct comparison between two unlike things. A metaphor builds a bridge between them for our minds to walk across.

Example - The rain is a broken piano playing the same note over and over.”

😍❤️🥰