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Hi, and welcome back to the Write Your Story podcast.

I'm Ali Fallon.

I'm your host. And on this week's

episode, I want to pick up by talking about a topic that I started talking about last week. And I feel like

I just have more to say. There were so many things that I said last week that were kind of like

ethereal and, you know, just sort of like out there, not as practical. And what I want to do this week is talk about the more practical elements of the topic

that I opened last week. So what I talked about last week is this concept of where the writing

process actually begins, that we think the writing process begins when we put our fingers to the

keys. We think the creative process begins when the opportunity

lands in our lap, like we take the positive pregnancy test or, you know, something physical,

tangible happens when actually the writing process begins much earlier when the ideas kind of start

to whisper to us. And where it really begins is when we engage with that whisper by saying yes, by taking the first

step into the unknown without knowing how things are going to turn out, without knowing what

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