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When I’m working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

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Joan Didion

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The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

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Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

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May 3, 2024

Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than myself. I always failed. I would freeze up.

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May 3, 2024

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

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