They are patient, good listeners, and fantastic storytellers. Each story is trimmed of excess. It’s a spell-binding time spent with a good salesman. In fact, you don’t even know you are being sold."

I’m going to give you a ground rule now. Editing is out. Editing as you go is counterproductive. If you keep second guessing yourself and hitting the backspace key, the page could remain blank for a mighty long time...

Maybe you don't love what you wrote. Doesn’t matter. You haven’t published anything yet. You’ll edit later. To be prolific, or even productive, give yourself permission to write messy first drafts. The pros do. I promise."