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Don’t Write What You Know (Episode 10)

In the tenth episode of the Advice I Hope to Follow, we contradict the most famous advice in writing.

In which Douglas Beagley sees a newspaper article in Seven Days.

Foreigner, Bryan Adams, and YouTuber John Green all agree on today’s tip.

Would you still create without an audience?

Three tips for when you get stuck. An anti-writer’s block mantra. But also, maybe the opposite, too.

Intellect can only take us so far.

Often, the point is not the point.

Omit needless words.

If there’s nothing new under the sun, what is worth creating? Why make art when everything has already been done?

Go ahead, take an artsy photograph of that duck.