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A day without work can yield a night without sleep
– Albanian Proverb
One of my literary heroes, and my writing sherpa – the person who has influenced me more than any other when it comes to styling my prose and shaping my fiction – is W. Somerset Maugham. His works, if you don’t know, include
Of Human Bondage,
The Purple Veil,
A Moon and Sixpence, and countless other iconic novels, novellas, short stories and plays. He also was a sage when it came to the business of explaining to writers the essence of writing, including this tidbit: