How to Write

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the word despair

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 1:45 AM, Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com> wrote:
> Rule No. 2: Don't trust anything anyone tells you about writing. Cor.: Don't
> dismiss anything anyone tells you.
> Rule No. 3: Don't be negative.
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> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> Rule No. 1: Don't heed anything you read in the New York Times.
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>> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:08 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> Don't open your book with weather.
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>>> 2012/7/28 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>>> > The art of writing can be reduced to a few simple rules. I share them
>>> > with you now.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-writing.html
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> --
> "Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
> the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason
> is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for
> the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the
> streets." -- Will Durant