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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1324702" data-attributes="member: 812">One note Mrs. Barsoom gave me on my more recent SH entries:"When you're not interested, I'm not interested."Write ONLY the interesting bits. Because you'll write them with your own interest guiding you, and you'll write better because of it.When you find it becoming a slog, or when you're not sure of the details and just want to breeze through something to get to "the good stuff" -- be assured you're writing material your readers will find no more interesting than you. You got two choices -- don't write that bit, or find a way to love it.A Story Hour is a great place to try things out, to practice the craft of writing. Because writing IS a craft -- it's not purely intellectual, it's a physical act that you can train yourself in. That you NEED to train yourself in, if you want to get better.Stephen King likens talent to a knife. Some of us get little paring knives, others get big honking machetes. A big knife, sure it makes a big impact. But a small knife is every bit as dangerous and effective -- IF you keep it sharp.ENWorld is the whetstone. Your Story Hour is the pressure of your hand. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>