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How Writing Actually Gets Done

One of the reasons that writing feels so hard to many people is because their expectation doesn’t match the reality of how a clean draft actually gets written. Many people have an ideal of sitting down at a computer and just letting the words flow out perfectly. The heavens open up, birds sing outside, and a ray of light descends from above as they post their work, email it, or send it off to the editor. That, however, is not how good writing actually gets done. On this episode, Kent encourages us to be persistent in our writing, even when reality doesn’t meet our expectations. *** Are you…

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