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kleinbl00  ·  4047 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Weekly random thought #1: Milk

This is what separates writers from others - the ability and desire to put the fucking pen to the fucking paper.

I have a couple friends that hassle me during NaNoWriMo. One of them wrote me an email recently saying "I've got all the big set pieces but all the stuff in between is boring and I don't like writing it. How can I change this?"

I told him "that boring stuff between the crap you want to write? THAT'S THE JOB. The art of writing is the art of taking the shit that isn't interesting and making it interesting not just for you, but for everyone who reads you."

That is what keeps people from "writing the stories."