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Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

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Jane Yolen

Just write. If you have to make a choice, if you say, 'Oh well, I'm going to put the writing away until my children are grown,' then you don't really want to be a writer. If you want to be a writer, you do your writing. . . If you don't do it, you probably don't want to be a writer, you just want to have written and be famous—which is very different.

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But as the scissors snip-snapped through her hair and the razor shaved the rest, she realized with a sudden awful panic that she could no longer recall anything from the past. I cannot remember, she whispered to herself. I cannot remember. She's been shorn of memory as brutally as she'd been shorn of her hair, without permission, without reason. . . Gone, all gone, she thought again wildly, no longer even sure what was gone, what she was mourning.

Hair, Memories, Past, Recall, Shaved, Thought

Intuition works best when you remember that “tuition” is part of it. You need to have paid ahead of time (ie done your prep work) so as to prepare the ground for intuition.

Done, Intuition, Needs, Prep, Prepare, Remember

Fiction cannot recite the numbing numbers, but it can be that witness, that memory. A storyteller can attempt to tell the human tale, can make a galaxy out of the chaos, can point to the fact that some people survived even as most people died. And can remind us that the swallows still sing around the smokestacks.

Memories, Memory, Numbers, People, Swallows

Know, my son, that the enemy will always be with you. He will be in the shadow of your dreams and in your living flesh, for he is the other part of yourself.

Dream, Dreams, Enemy, Part, Shadow, Son

Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.

Exercise, Needs, Thinking, Write, Writing
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