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If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline.

R. L. Stine

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R. L. Stine
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 8
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Columbus
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Robert Lawrence Stine
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