Fourteen Hundred Words of Garbage
- petersbusiness
- Feb 28
- 1 min read
And that’s a GOOD thing. I was feeling completely stuck for the last week. I had my outline, and I had a dozen or so scenes that knocked it out of the park. (One person in my writing group had literal tears in her eyes.) But there’s a lot of connective tissue still missing and some big blank spaces in the outline and I just wasn’t feeling inspired.
Mind you, it’s been a Hell of a week. My mother-in-law passed away, so we’ve been grieving as well as scrambling to sort out the estate situation.
But I finally sat down and said, Screw it. I’m gonna write some crap. It’ll suck, but that’s okay. Anne Lamott in Bird By Bird talks about the importance of the “shitty first draft,” of giving yourself permission to write awful sentences. Besides, revision has always been the fun and easy part of writing for me; it’s the blank page that sometimes wins the staring contest.
So. Garbage. Fourteen hundred words of it.
A very good day of writing.
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