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

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

  1. Derrick “Quite Clever” Sanders Avatar
    Derrick “Quite Clever” Sanders

    That’s a great idea! I think I know how I’m going to stop all my ‘-ing’. 

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  2. Derrick “Quite Clever” Sanders Avatar
    Derrick “Quite Clever” Sanders

    That’s a great idea! I think I know how I’m going to stop all my ‘-ing’. 

    Reply
  3. Mac Vogt Avatar
    Mac Vogt

    Oh man. It’s like trolling yourself.

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  4. Mac Vogt Avatar
    Mac Vogt

    Oh man. It’s like trolling yourself.

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