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Goodreads asked Pearl Howie:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Pearl Howie Learn how to silence the inner critic aka the voice of knowledge, the ego, because this is the voice that will shut you down and shut you up.

I use different types of music to silence it, as well as meditation and many other techniques. Once you can do this, you free yourself as a writer.

Warning: it's even harder to silence the inner critic when you are editing, because you are actually looking for problems!

The good news is that being able to do this is not just a writing skill but an essential life skill.

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