live your life
5th July 2016 | for Creatives | writing, artist's voice, artists must EXPERIENCE, Chuck Wendig, never stop LEARNING, TAKE RISKS |
"What will elevate your work and make it your own is to live your life. Learn from your existence and borrow things from your day to day. Have adventures. Take risks. Put yourself into your fiction. Because life offers a kind of writing advice you just can't read about—it's something only you can experience."
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