So let’s pick up the pen, and kick some ass. Write down who you were, who you are, and what you remember.
— NATALIE GOLDBERG
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Everybody else works out — actors, musicians, dancers — why not writers?
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but she shows up periodically in class to do writing exercises, to work out; she calls the class her writing gym.
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successful mystery novelist
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I don’t think — I write.
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People come up with memories or feelings or thoughts they didn’t even know they had.
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10. Working Out I give a lot of five-minute exercises when I teach, because I think writing for just five minutes forces you to get out of your own way and lets you off the hook for writing something brilliant. Five minutes — no pausing, no stopping!
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and suggest that this would be the subject of their writing.
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When William Zinsser visited schools to discuss writing, he’d ask students, “What are your problems? What are your concerns?
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There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.