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A Letter to Your Inner Critic--How to Stop the Invisible Sabotage to Your Creativity

A Letter to Your Inner Critic--How to Stop the Invisible Sabotage to Your Creativity

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Mary Carroll Moore
May 26, 2012
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If I had a way to capture the self-talk inside most writers' brains, as they sit down to do their writing practice, here's what I might hear:

“You need a lot more backstory here.”
“This section will take months of research. Stop writing and get started. It’ll be a good distraction.”
“You need to explain what your character is thinking here. Your writing i…

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