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You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. if all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.
-Neil Gaiman
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Neil Gaiman
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. if all you have is a beginning, then once you've written that beginning, you have nowhere to go.
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