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The Problem With Too Much Comfort

from Abhishek Chakraborty [alt+shift+b] in life

The recurring advice for writing any good story: keep the interesting parts, remove everything else. If you watch a good biopic, you wouldn’t want to know about their boring afternoon visit to the doctor unless it contributed to the screenplay of the movie.
6th Jan 2022

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