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In my opinion, there’s three steps to good writing (in no particular order): 1.        Learning theory- the knowledge of how to write. 2.        Practicing- the actual writing. 3.        Analysis- the shouting at oneself about how one is a bad writer and (this is the important part) then learning from one’s mistakes. 1.        Theory: Two people decide to be writers- The first decides to start writing right away. They come up with a character, a setting and they are off. They reach chapter two, chapter three, and keep going, but they falter. What to do now? They don’t know where the story is going? Ah, okay, we’ll come up with a random new direction, let’s go. Keep going, and the end result is a meandering mess. The other person goes to Google and types ‘How to Write Better’, and gets an awesome article that explains the Three Act Structure, and the ...

Wake up. It’s itching again. Scratch it. It’s swollen up already. Breathe slower. Your hair is wet, slick with sweat. Breathe slower. Keep your heart rate down. Do not panic. Scratch it. It’s just an itch. Just an itch. It’s stayed with you for a few months now: red with scratch marks, swollen now, bruised. But it’s still just an itch. You took it to a doctor, I believe? I don’t think you even remember. I was with you then. I’ve been with you for a few months now. But you don’t look at me. You just keep looking at that goddamn itch all the time, scratching. Scratch. Scratch. Claw it out, come on. Rid yourself of that goddamn itch, so you can finally look at me. The doctor said it was a mosquito bite. The doctor talked loudly, and sharply. You didn’t go back again. What if you went back, and he looked inside your brain and found out about us? About me? No. You began worrying that the truth was printed on the back of your iris, and if someone was to look too closely into you...