❝There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: Do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas, of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence—an overwhelming determination to succeed…. They will not be thrust aside!❞
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Sophy Burnham (via meganomalous)
I get really angry when professors are like, “don’t shoot in color unless there’s a reason to” or “don’t write this the night before” or “definitely don’t write this the night before while shotgunning espressos and drinking whiskey and cursing humanity feverishly by the dim light of a single tungsten bulb.” Because different things work for different people. Next time maybe I will print this out and make a paper airplane and throw it in their eye.
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