Running of the WIPS

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Running of the WIPS
Running of the WIPS
Day 10

Day 10

The path to great sentences is littered with bad ones

Nov 13, 2024
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Hey, Runners!

I remember the first time I fully incorporated the idea of Write Crap into my writing.

I wrote a sentence.

I did not like that sentence.

I knew it was a bad sentence.

But I kept going anyway.

It was a struggle, the first time. But once I learned that skill, I never looked back, and it has served me very, very well.

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