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If you ever feel even the slightest spark of creativity in you, be it wanting to paint, finding excuses to skip work and go take photos in the park or putting together blog posts on neighborhood gossip (remember to change the names!), ignite that spark into a fire. And feed that fire voraciously.

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The really blokey guy you would expect to see roughing up some guy in front of a bar rather than in a creative writing workshop but you would expect to write crime fiction which he does. You want to tell him that no one writes about heavy smoking and drinking private eyes anymore but your to scared to in case he beats you up after class.