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The Clock's Marinade


Rough drafts look better when they're

  -written in haste-

  then left untouched for a month.Or two.

Your work doesn't seem so fucking stupid anymore.

But that's the writer's curse. Right?

To hate your own words before you

  -have time to perfect them-.

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