Lexie Elliott
Read: read indiscriminately, read what you enjoy, without worrying about "high brow" versus "low brow" or "commercial" versus "literary". Then write, and do it professionally: schedule it into your life, don't wait for inspiration to strike. Modern life is busy, it will always get in the way if you let it; if you're really serious about writing, you have to ring-fence that time.
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Lexie Elliott:
I was wondering if you had any characters, items, places, dialogues, etc. that you have taken out of your stories that I could use in a story idea that I had? The idea is about an island where every story piece that was given up on, thrown out or abandoned ends up. I've been asking authors if they have anything I could use because I want to put some truth in the idea. It's fine if you don't have anything. Thanks! :)
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