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The Muddle in the Middle I haven’t posted in a while. I gave myself a deadline for finishing the second draft of my novel, and then life happened. Nothing serious,…

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Everyone was a newbie once.

The coolest, most talented, innovative and put-together people in the world didn’t start that way.  When starting out on a new creative endeavor, the natural tendency is to pick someone’s perfect piece to compare it to.  You want to learn rock carving, so you hammer away at your first slab of rock and then despair because it doesn’t look like Michaelangelo’s David.  Was that the first thing he ever made?  I don’t think so! But no one wants to be a noob.

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