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Editing is hard but nowhere NEAR as tough as facing that blank page and blinking cursor each day. You're all alone and no one else can do it. At least with editing you have someone in the trench with you.

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Sarah Dessen
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: June 6
Novelist
Writer
Evanston
Illinois
Someone
Nowhere
Hard
Page
Near
Trench
Pages
Blinking
Tough
Trenches
Least
Editing
Alone
Facing
Else
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