You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Split your skull__ hatchet works well enough. Take a more delicate instrument__ scalpel, perhaps__nd make a hand-sized slit; it doesn__ matter where. Reach in (no glove needed), plunge down to the very bottom, pinch the inside layer of membrane and yank, hard. If it feels like you__e just turned your brain inside out, you have. Writing is brain surgery, pure and simple.
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Split your skull__ hatchet works well enough. Take a more delicate instrument__ scalpel, perhaps__nd make a hand-sized slit; it doesn__ matter where. Reach in (no glove needed), plunge down to the very bottom, pinch the inside layer of membrane and yank, hard. If it feels like you__e just turned your brain inside out, you have. Writing is brain surgery, pure and simple.
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