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Old 04-20-2009, 04:20 AM   #5
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Terry Pratchett once said "Too many people want to have written". I'm one of those people.
It's an oft-repeated maxim in writing from long before Pratchett. I don't think it's the case with me, but I made the all too common rookie mistake of getting too bogged down in the minutae -- reading books on the craft, making lists of markets, spending hours agonizing on just the right manuscript format -- and not actually writing, which is the most important part.
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