The Best Piece of Writing Is The One That You Finish…

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The ones that sit in your drafts don’t count.

Also, there’s no such thing as writer’s block.

You’re just being too hard on yourself and what you write — or are able to produce at the moment.

I know this because I’ve been through this before.

I can’t speak for you, but when I have so-called writer’s block, I don’t stare at a blank screen.

At least not at first….

What I do is that I frustrate myself, being too hard on what I write, until I just give up.

It’s a dance of starting, stopping myself, starting again, stopping myself again…ad infinitum.

Accomplishing nothing in the process!!!

It looks something like this:

I have (what I think) is a great idea.

I jot down a few ideas.

I start writing…

But……wait……that doesn’t sound good.

So let me delete that and start again.

I write something else.

But, wait, that sounds even worse.

So I erase that too, and start over.