I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write

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I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do—the actual act of writing—turns out to be the best part. It’s like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.

~ Anne Lamott

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  1. I do too if they bring it up.

    Though they think I’m teasing them when I say they’ll be throwing out or otherwise rewriting nine tenths of whatever they try to put down. 😉

    (I think mine’s closer to 95% … 😛 )

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