You will have a story in there... or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word. (Patricia MacLachlan)

You will have a story in there... or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.

Patricia MacLachlan

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