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Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create.

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Kim Edwards
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Killeen
Texas
Writing
Thing
Work
Reception
Control
Create
Impossible
Experience

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