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This is the best thing I've read in a long time...

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Really great sentiment!

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I really enjoyed this essay and I’m sharing it with my workshopping group. Thank you so much.

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Great advice that extends far beyond writing

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what a wonderful piece of writing!

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We don't spend nearly enough time talking about this stuff. The Oedipal Mother, the Complex, fatal flaws, and mythic tragedies.

And I don't know why. Maybe because we have been conditioned to think it's taboo to talk about this stuff. Or maybe just because there aren't enough people writing about it.

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Such a great read.

Do it if you no longer care whether or not you’ll succeed because it’s that worth it.

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Great advice.

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“if you dare to venture, you will be taxed with a painful level of self-consciousness or an existential awakening that is rude beyond expectations”

Does it have to be painful? Why? How about joyful? Maybe it’s taking out of context.

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