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Writing tips are like mini skirts. Sometimes they fit perfectly, sometimes they make you cry, and sometimes you can reuse the material and sew yourself a pillow or something.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Cry Fit Like Make Material Mini Perfectly Pillow Sew Skirts Something Sometimes Tips Writing You Yourself

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You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Learn Living Make Until Want Write Writing You

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I love to write just about more than anything, but there are times I have to force myself to sit down and work. I want to play with my daughter or watch a movie with my husband or go outside on the nicest day of the year. But if writing is going to be your job, you have to treat it like a job.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: About Anything Daughter Day Down Force Go Going Husband Job Just Like Love More More Than Anything Movie Myself Nicest Outside Play Sit Than Times Treat Want Watch Work Write Writing Year You Your I Love

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Don't let your characters tell you what to do. They can be pushy. Some writers say that they create characters and then just sort of follow them around through the narrative. I think that these writers are out of their minds.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Around Characters Create Follow Just Minds Narrative Out Pushy Say Some Sort Tell Them Then Think Through Writers You Your I Think

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I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: About Because Change Choices Different Essays Fact Fill Had How Make Narrative Normally Place Relationship Shape Struck Things Travel Used Would Write Writing

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I am a control freak, but not when I travel. For some reason when I travel, I am able to surrender more than in my real life. I am able to let go. I think it's why I like it so much.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Able Am Control Control Freak Freak Go Let Go Life Like More Much Real Real Life Reason Some Surrender Than Think Travel Why I Think I Am

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I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Away Before Decade Even Heard Lived North Off On And Off People Portland Town Washed

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Of the paperbacks that you see at the airport, I am the most violent woman writer.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Airport Am Most See Violent Woman Writer You I Am

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I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.

~Chelsea Cain

Topics: Books Desk Library Rat Read Reading Reading Books School Time Walked

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I read a lot fewer thrillers than I think people assume I do.

~Chelsea Cain

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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