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If You Want to Write by Brenda Ueland — WisdomDeck honest review

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If You Want to Write

by Brenda Ueland

The 1938 classic: everyone is talented, original and has something to say; write freely and truly. Encouraging and still fresh.

Read it if…

you are afraid you have no right to write.

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Skip it if…

you want technique.

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Three things you will actually use

Everybody is talented.
Write from the true self.
Idleness feeds the imagination.

Do this first

Read chapter one and write something true.

Our verdict

Permission to write.

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