it is crucial that you write every day
28th August 2016 | for Creatives | intuitive writing & pantsing, creative process, creating isn't easy, Robert Olen Butler, writing, KEEP CREATING |
"Once you are engaged in writing a piece of fiction from your unconscious, it is crucial that you write every day, because the nature of this place where you go is such that it's very difficult to find your way in. It's pure torture. But even though it's terrible getting in, once you’re in, if you keep going back every day, though it's still always daunting and difficult and scary, it's not nearly so much so."
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