Negative practice: if you know your writing has a fault, try to commit it as often as possible.

Negative practice: if you know your writing has a fault, try to commit it as often as possible. In doing so, you are making it conscious and bringing it under your control. (It’s a psychological technique.)

– Damon Knight, Creating Short Fiction

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