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Emma Darwin & Chris Westwood

Illustration by Fran Pulido of two books that look like open books next to a microphone.

Chris Westwood explains how a fresh location helped him to reset his writing voice, and Emma Darwin recalls the early days of online writing communities. Chris Westwood shares his Break Point experience, explaining how a reset period in a fresh location helped him both to recover his creative writing self and to understand what had happened to disable it. Emma Darwin recalls the early days of online writing communities, and explains how her popular blog “This Itch of Writing” came into being.


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