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WritingI've been a writer for as long as I've been a reader, in the sense of simply putting words onto paper. I wrote a book before I was seven years old that had dinosaurs attacking my school. It was probably beyond awful but at least I had felt the need to create something, even back then.I've dabbled here and there ever since, but started taking writing seriously after reading an article by Jerry Pournelle on writing. I started a project I called The Million Word March that was designed to improve whatever talents I had as a writer, by following Pournelle's advice to write, write, write. I feel that it has already succeeded, even though I've currently only written a few hundred thousand words rather than the full million. I now feel confident in writing serious work, which I am doing, and often cringe when looking back at what I wrote years ago. I'm sure I'll look back again in a few years at what I'm writing now and feel the same, but then that's precisely the point.
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