You enter the savannah without any water or food. Next mistake: crashing through some brush and trampling a twig.
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How to Be a Better Writer: Don’t Be a One-Trick Pony
If you want to be a better, you can’t be a one-trick pony. You have to explore other forms of writing. Test yourself. Develop new characters. Enrich existing ones. Make them deeper, rounder, more lifelike.
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Forget the Writer
“‘There is no such thing as THE WRITER.’ … The battle is this: the dethroning of the writer, the constant and all-consuming bloody coup every story or poem or essay—every genuine work of art—must accomplish over its author in order truly to live and to breathe and to have something to say to us that will matter.” — Brett Lott, Letters and Life, quoting Flannery O’Connor