Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.
Jennifer EganAnd for an instant he would remember Naples: sitting with Sasha in her tiny room; the jolt of surprise and delight he'd felt when the sun finally dropped into the center of her window and was captured inside her circle of wire. Now he turned to her, grinning. Her hair and face were aflame with orange light. "See," Sasha muttered, eyeing the sun. "It's mine.
Jennifer EganThat adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
Jennifer EganTimeโs a goon, right? You gonna let that goon push you around?โ Scotty shook his head. โThe goon won.
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