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What I've found as I have kept writing stories is that more and more your way is barred. I feel really choked by what I already know how to do, by the fact that my obsessions nearly always mount a sneak attack, so that I find myself writing another version of the same thing.

Catherine Brady

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Catherine Brady
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: January 1
Professor
Short Story Writer
Writer
Feel
Kept
Obsessions
Feels
Already
Mount
Writing
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Sneak
Thing
Facts
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Found
Obsession
Way
Another
Versions
Always
Stories
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Barred
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