Whenever I take time away from writing, I always forget that I do my best work when I skip around chapters and scenes like a little kid in a sweets shop trying to decide which candy to buy. And then I inevitably try to write things sequentially because it makes sense, and because I wrote an outline and everything, you know, and then I get stuck because I've forgotten to run around between scenes like a crazy person, which is really the only way I ever finish anything.

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