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Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

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Don Roff
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: December 13
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Walla Walla
Washington
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Lower
Trying
Torture
Expectations
Writers
Words
Often
Right
Sometimes
Finish

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