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Writer’s block

Getting Past the “Scary Eyes” Deterrent in Writing

As a kid I longed to draw things the way they really looked. I was especially fascinated with eyes. But whenever I tried to draw them, penciling in realistic highlights, they never had the natural warmth I wanted to capture. They always had a malicious glare that made them look evil. I could have continued

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Reclaiming the Freedom of the Rough Draft

In a rough draft, I was told, anything goes. Write quickly, ignore mistakes, plow on despite grammar errors, keep the awkward wording. I was told that this kind of writing releases bursts of wild creative energy and honesty, that it is a way to evade the “internal censor” – the nagging inner critic in every

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