“You have to allow yourself the liberty of writing poorly.” Loren Eaton talks about writing through the mess of initial drafts.
“You have to allow yourself the liberty of writing poorly.” Loren Eaton talks about writing through the mess of initial drafts.
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It’s so hard to do, though. My internal perfectionist wants to obliterate all my first drafts.
I know all the writing blankety first drafts stuff-I’m even reading Bird By Bird by Ann Lamott again just to let it soak in One.More.Time. And yet, here I sit with 134 pages of my first draft, not even touched since November. Too bad my fear and stupidity can’t be weaponized.