Matt Haig, author of 'The Midnight Library' - Bestselling writing talks searching for humanity, trusting the process, and getting the first draft done.
Writer's Routine
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How to Write a Good Book
For me i feel like to actually inhabit the person's mind and to know them emotionally is so much more important than physical descriptions. I try myself to be shorter and simpler when i'm describing characters in my books. My favorite words are monocilables they're just sort oftypes like sky, love or archetypal such as "home" I will deliberately repeat words on from a sentence before following on some and i'll use the word home three times in that paragraph or whatever it is for no reason at all. It can take away when you when a writer gives you too much because bender reader's imagination isn't working but sometimes if you can just make a suggestion then
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