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Um um um um um. This business of__his business about marketing yourself, there__ nothing wrong with that. Unless we__e allowed to think that that____hat that__ it. That that__ the point, that that__ the goal, you know? And that__ the reason we__e here__ecause that__ so empty. And you as a writer know that it____f you as a writer think that your job is to get as many people to like your stuff and think well of you as possible _ And I could, we could both, name writers that it__ pretty obvious that__ their motivation? It kills the work. Each time. That that__ maybe 50 percent of it, but it misses all the magic. And it misses, it doesn__ let you be afraid. Or it doesn__, like, let you like make yourself be, be vulnerable. Or _ nah, see, I__ not _ Anyway, anyway.
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Um um um um um. This business of__his business about marketing yourself, there__ nothing wrong with that. Unless we__e allowed to think that that____hat that__ it. That that__ the point, that that__ the goal, you know? And that__ the reason we__e here__ecause that__ so empty. And you as a writer know that it____f you as a writer think that your job is to get as many people to like your stuff and think well of you as possible _ And I could, we could both, name writers that it__ pretty obvious that__ their motivation? It kills the work. Each time. That that__ maybe 50 percent of it, but it misses all the magic. And it misses, it doesn__ let you be afraid. Or it doesn__, like, let you like make yourself be, be vulnerable. Or _ nah, see, I__ not _ Anyway, anyway.

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