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On Writing Badly Every Morning
Three pages before breakfast, and permission to make them terrible.
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How I Write
Bad first drafts, loose outlines, three passes of revision and borrowing a voice until you find your own.
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How I Outline Without Killing the Story
Index cards, a corkboard and a rule: the outline is allowed to change.
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Revising: The Three-Pass Method I Actually Use
Big picture, then paragraphs, then every single word.
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Finding Your Voice by Copying Others (Yes, Really)
The old exercise of typing out sentences you love.
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