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Renee Watson Author, Activist
Writing

"I have learned patience, for sure. Pre-publication is a long waiting game, especially for authors of picture books. We write the manuscript, sign the contract, and wait. It takes a while for the art director to find an illustrator and then the illustrator works on the sketches, and depending on those first round of sketches, it could be a few more months before you see a final illustration. I was surprised at how long it takes for all the pieces to come together."

Writing Art Book
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Renee Watson Author, Activist
Writing

"I have a writing space in my apartment, but I prefer to write at coffee shops. When I'm stuck, I take a walk and spend time outside to clear my mind. I get inspired on these walks, often getting new ideas for stories and finding solutions to the problems that need to be fixed in the draft I am working on."

Writing Ideas Coffee
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Rhett Miller Musician, Singer-Songwriter
Writing

"Seeing that the 97's are a democracy through and through, inevitably, some of these tons of songs I write will get vetoed. The first time that happened (and every time thereafter), I consoled myself with the thought that sooner or later I'd make a solo record"

Writing Song Democracy
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Rhianna Pratchett Video Game Writer
Writing

"I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project."

Writing Talking Desire
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Rhianna Pratchett Video Game Writer
Writing

"There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together."

Writing Feelings Numbers
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Rhianna Pratchett Video Game Writer
Writing

"A lot of young girls don't realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven't thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing."

Writing Art Girl
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Writing

"As for the influence on my writing,music has definitely influenced how I write. That idea of cadence, repetition, all those elements appear throughout my writing. Drumming has definitely had a huge influence on the way I write, too. Has definitely tuned my ear to rhythm. After I've written something, I'll go through it repeatedly, carefully listening to the construction of the words, seeing, hearing how they flow."

Writing Listening Influence
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Rich Fulcher Actor, Comedian
Writing

"I thought you'd be arguing [in the law school], and then I realized you have to read all these cases, and it's mostly writing, and then I just thought, "Well, I might as well stay and get the degree.""

Writing School Law
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Rich Fulcher Actor, Comedian
Writing

"I used to steal pens at the store. Back in the day when you would write checks, I would write a check and use the pen, and I would keep the pen."

Writing Use Back In The Day
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Rich Sommer Actor
Writing

"Frankly, as much as I love to improvise, it hasn't been difficult to stick to the script on 'Mad Men.' The writing is so precise, and the story so carefully crafted, that I don't think there's room - or need - for ad libbing. I could never come up with dialogue as lovely as these writers do, anyway."

Thinking Men Writing
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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
Writing

"We ought not to confine ourselves either to writing or to reading; the one, continuous writing, will cast a gloom over our strength, and exhaust it; the other will make our strength flabby and watery. It is better to have recourse to them alternately, and to blend one with the other, so that the fruits of one's reading may be reduced to concrete form by the pen."

Writing Reading Advice
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Serena Williams Tennis Player
Writing

"I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing."

Writing Want Mind
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