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It took me a couple of years after I got out of Berkeley before I dared to start writing. That academic mind-set – which was kind of shallow in my case anyway – had begun to fade.

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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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