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I am writing a book but I am writing more about writing about the book than actually writing the book so I just want to document the nice thoughts

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this book im publishing is a collection of my life up to 26 yrs old and its messy and wtf

I love everything and I hate all the rest

at first you understand something and use big words and long paragraphs to explain it. by then you understand it beyond the mind and are able to describe that in just a few short and direct sentences.

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
Sylvia Plath

There's no pressure when you're unknown. You can do what you want. Experiment. Do things for just the fun of it. When you're unknown, there's nothing to distract you from getting better. No public image to manage. No huge paycheck on the line. No stockholders. No e-mails from your agent. No hangers-on. (p. 78)

Kleon, A. (2012). Steal Like An Artist. Ten Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative. Workman Publishing Company: New York.

No Pressure When You're Unknown

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
Virginia Woolf

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I fear of losing all that i know so that when the moment comes for me to share my knowledge or ideas i will not be able to recall them, so I constantly put them down because my inspiration is very sporadic so i need to make use of it and this is why i dont let anything escape ans i need to hold onto things so that once i need it, i know where to find it or if i am not inspired, simply scrolling through what i wrote or put out inspires me

I write to mainly articulate experiences so once I discover it for me i have the need to share it and help someone

I don't want to let anything go so I constantly put it down

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