I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
Colm ToibinThe problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing in it for you. I write in longhand using disposable fountain pens on the right-hand side of the notebook for the first draft, then I rewrite some of the sentences and paragraphs on the left-hand side.
Colm ToibinShe was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.
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