People on the outside think there’s something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn’t like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that’s all there is to it.
- Harlan Ellison
Preach it, brother. We may not be sitting behind typewriters these days, more likely a computer, but that’s about all that’s changed. At least when it was a typewriter we didn’t have the distraction of surfing the internet (as I’m doing now) and obsessively checking e-mail. Ah, the good old days.
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