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new sa('Corner-Books: An interview with author Sharon Flake', 
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       'February 10, 2010, Wednesday 1:20 PM EST', 
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       ' Scripps Howard News Service', 
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       'Entertainment - News', 
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       'In 10 years, Sharon Flake had published six award-winning books, mostly for teens. Writing came naturally to her, as did the stories about young African-American girls and boys facing challenges in navigating their teenage years.And then she developed writer\'s block."It was the first time I ever had writer\'s block. I had it bad," Flake said in a recent interview from her Pittsburgh home. "Part of the problem was that, for 10 years, people had been asking me, \'How do you write like that?\' And I would tell them that I have no idea, that I always have very little idea of where I\'m going when I write a book. ... It\'s something intuitive and beyond me."'),
  


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