A woman who was preparing to write the very first words of her very first book, asked what advice I had as an author that might help her in her journey, and this is what I said to her... "Just write and watch it unfold. I rewrote the first chapter of my first book what felt like 100 times, as I figured out different things to make it better. And each time I did, it didn't feel like a chore, it was exciting, because I got to see it unfold better each time I changed things from point of view, to cutting parts to make the first scene start at a more exciting point in the story, to changing words to be more streamlined and more active voice, to character names. The point is, don't get hung up on all of those things today, or worry about trying to do it all perfectly the first time. The key is I couldn't have gotten it to the better places without seeing where it was at in the first place by throw up on the page first in whatever from it flowed out of me. Right now they are ideas of people and places just patiently waiting to be born. They'll let you know how to take care of them and make them look pretty once they are here."
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