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S17, Ep6 Diana Evans: the bestselling author on writing routines, dealing with her inner critic and living life to the fullest

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Beauty of Perfectionism

I find it really hard to look at my books sometimes because you realize how it's just not what you wanted it to be. Yeah but you have to accept that. I think another thing is from dancing. You know when you're on stage well when she used to be on stage dancing and I'd be aware of every haircut and every step that I got wrong but then afterwards you realize that the audience isn't actually aware as you are of what went wrong. Exactly. People aren't watching you to trip you up and to point out your failures or what you got wrong. You know that's not what humanity is like, people need something that you can give them whether it's through a

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