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Banishing the Fear of Being Seen (opens the original)
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I’ve never feared anything like I used to fear the possibility of somebody finding my notebook. The thought of another person reading my shy scrawlings of ideas, descriptions, and characters (that I’d rushed down when no one was looking) made me rigid with anxiety. I come from a rural-industrial working-class environment which, in my experience, brought up its boys to believe that expressing their feelings was to express their weakness, and there were a lot of people around me who attacked these
Forgiveness (opens the original)
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Writers & Artists in Conversation with Isabel Allende (opens the original)
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Story Telling by Isabel Allende: Writers & Artists Exclusive Extract (opens the original)
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Chapter 4: Seeds in the BellyEvery time I speak in public, I get the same two unavoidable questions. The first is why do I always start all my books on January 8? The answer is discipline, which I apply to my writing and to the rest of my life. Without discipline, inspiration is useless. Having a fixed day to start a new project works like a magic wand. I prepare my calendar, my life, and my soul in advance for that sacred morning in which I will confront the blank screen. Nothing with prevent m
On the road again (opens the original)
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