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— Stanley Schmidt"Don't mistake a good setup for a satisfying conclusion - many beginning writers end their stories when the real story is just ready to begin."
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Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.
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Beginning writers are often advised to 'write what you know,' and since I knew about quilters - their quirks, their inside jokes, their disputes and their generosity, their quarrels and their kindnesses - the lives of quilters became a natural subject for me. Quilting wove together my two themes as completely and effortlessly as I could have hoped.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
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