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David Gane
David Gane

Let go of superstitious thinking.

Our passions define ourselves and our identity. We allow our obsessions to control us, even when it causes us conflict. Harmonious passions allow us to balance between our identity, our passions, and our life. Rigid, obsessive ways weaken the writing.

Over the past months, I have let go of the way things are done and I have embraced new ways. I am in a new way of thinking. I can see the answer now that I am here but at the time I didn’t know how to go from there to here.

Where are you now? If you can only see one way of doing it, you haven’t let go.

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Co-writer of the Shepherd and Wolfe young adult mysteries, the internationally award-winning series, and teacher of storytelling and screenwriting.

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