February 17th, 2017
1 Minute Read
1 Minute Read
February 17th, 2017
1 Minute Read
1 Minute Read
8,345 Lost Words
On a long plane ride, I decided to delete a chapter from a rough draft. I agonized over it. Yes, 8,345 words bit the dust.1 I found the following quote:
“One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I’m going to do my five or 10 pages no matter what, and that I can always tear them up the following morning if I want. I’ll have lost nothing—writing and tearing up five pages would leave me no further behind than if I took the day off.” Lawrence Block
The lesson made me feel better, at least for a while.
Sigh.
Footnotes
Writing is a labor of love, the important lesson is to build on the story each day, the gaps in your head and the page are sometimes hard to reconcile.↩︎
