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Advice on Achieving Any Long-Haul Dream

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

Writing Your Way Out of the Wilderness

"Once the bottom dropped out of my life, it was like the only way that I could get back in my mind anyway," he says. "The next 27 years or however long that was was just trying to... What went wrong with the first novel was I got 99.9% away through and I choked and blew it up." He didn't think finding success as an author would take as long as it did.

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