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When personal writing bleeds into creative work

I have been journaling every day for a year thinking it would help my fiction but now my stories sound like diary entries and I cannot find the boundary between life and art

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The cultivation of one form of expression can contaminate another when practiced without sufficient distinction.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Fiction and storytelling — craft fundamentals?”

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