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I Think That It's Important To Try To Keep Reality. I Think That Gabriel Garcia Marquez Speaks A Lot About Reality In His Magical Realism. So I Don't Think We Have To Be Hyper-realistic. But We Have To Understand The Pressures That Undergird The Lives Of The Characters Within That Novel.

The First Thing You Have To Know About Writing Is That It Is Something You Must Do Everyday. There Are Two Reasons For This Rule: Getting The Work Done And Connecting With Your Unconscious Mind.

... You Should Wait Until The Book Is Finished Before Making A Judgment On Its Content. By The Time You Have Gone Through Twenty Drafts, The Characters May Have Developed Lives Of Their Own, Completely Separate From The People You Based Them On In The Beginning. And Even If Someone, At Some Time, Gets Upset With Your Words - So What? Live Your Life, Sing Your Song. Anyone Who Loves You Will Want You To Have That.

The Idea Of Being Productive, The Idea Of Producing Many Books Is Going To Lead You Toward You Becoming A Better And Better Writer.

One Wouldn't Want To Say That What Makes A Good Writer Is The Number Of Books That The Writer Wrote Because You Could Write A Whole Number Of Bad Books. Books That Don't Work, Mediocre Books, Or There's A Whole Bunch Of People In The Pulp Tradition Who Have Done That. They Just Wrote... And Actually They Didn't Write A Whole Bunch Of Books, They Just Wrote One Book Many Times.