Containers can help us to focus our writing. When I was faced with the big expanse of writing a novel, the first step was to start dividing things in half. Even though I didn't know what journey the characters would go on, I at least knew there would be a before and an after, and I could start filling those containers.

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Music in this episode by Dustin Hamman. His band is Run On Sentence. www.patreaon.com/dustinhamman