"She gave him a strange maternal grin.For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am introuble here. This woman is not ...

When you write a story you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite your main job is taking out all the things that are NOT the story.
~ Stephen King ~












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