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a career as a writer. Without this stance, much of the great literature of our times would never have been written. The fact is that your morals and values do not mean that there are not other morals and values which are seen as realistic to other people. If you limit your work to only writing about those beliefs and within a given criteria, you deprive yourself of telling the full story.

To get into the practice of being able to paint a full picture, try character analysis and profiling. Set up different simple scenarios and study up on consequences. Look into illegal actions and what happens to people when these touch their lives. None of these are comfortable things to write about, but all could potentially become part of that novel you have been meaning to write. What has stopped you from taking pen to paper is not wishing to step out of your area of comfort and fail.

When you see the world as a full painting in all its glory, with all the colors which make up the elements of society, and the shadows which make up that element of darker moral values, you begin to write a more defined picture. Life is for living, but also for learning that when you write, all of these elements need to be included to make the picture real. Leave your values outside the door of your bureau and begin to see the other values which make the story work, and suddenly the doors to opportunity open.

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