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Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead.

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Amanda Hocking
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: July 12
Novelist
Writer
Rochester
Minnesota
Even
High
Always
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Would
Write
Like
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People
School
Compulsion
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