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I'm Really Quite Bad At Coming Up With Plot Ideas. I Like To Create Characters And Just See What Will Happen To Them When I Let Them Loose!
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I'm Really Quite Bad

Judy Blume
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I'm Really Quite Bad At Coming Up With Plot Ideas. I Like To Create Characters And Just See What Will Happen To Them When I Let Them Loose!

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My Mother Was A Cracker Jack Typist. And She Would Come In And Sit At My House And Type The Final Type Script Before I Would Then Send It To The Publisher. And It Was Nice For Us.
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