"No one has a masterpiece on the first run. The key is to start writing. Remember, done is better than good, my friend. You can make your “done” into “very good” MUCH easier than you can make a little bit of good stuff into a finished novel."
This is from a blog post a friend sent me this morning. Some really great advice in here I wanted to share with you:
Three Writer's Commandments I neglected to link to HoF last week. I am a bad off-duty blogger! This week, our guest blogger extols the virtues of beta reading:
What It Means To Be A Beta "...and when I hit the current in the middle I had to fight extra hard to get through it without being swept downstream. The very first draft of an author’s work is similar." (From the post. It's really pretty fabulous.)
Lastly--my GrandWilliam is a genius. Keep in mind the child is 18 months old.
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Clearly, my daughter's sub-par O was no O in GrandWilliam's eyes, and thus he finds a better one elsewhere on the page. Hers indeed, as he claims, appears to be an e (lower case.) :-P