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Gregg Hurwitz, author of 'The Last Orphan' - New York Times bestseller discusses diving into research, fixing the small things, and advice from James Patterson

Writer's Routine

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What Makes a Professional Athlete?

I think a lot about writing as I'm going to use a baseball, my second baseball metaphor of the day now. There's probably a good cricket metaphor that you can translate it. But look, I think a much about what differentiates a professional athlete from an amateur athlete. So if someone's playing triple A ball, that's the minor leagues in America. They have other things that they can do that even on days when it's not easy and they're not feeling it, they still are productive. And there's a lot of that with writing. Is there some days where I sit down and I feel like, oh man, like the words are right there. Right. And I

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