Sunday Quote relies on the wisdom of BIRD BY BIRD
"Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor. Perfectionism will ruin your writing, blocking inventiveness and playfulness and life force. Clutter is a wonderfully fertile ground--you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip."
~Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird
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Bird by Bird tells it like it is, and doesn't make writing sound like some magical, effortless task. I'm having one of those frustrated-writer weeks. I finished up this round of edits on Minstrels of Fate (YAY!) but that also means that for the first time in ages, I don't have a major project lurking in the background. Instead, I get to work on painful little stuff that makes perfectionist-me feel all prickly and incompetent.
- a short story I started on this week that has a fun concept that apparently fizzles out to nothing in the end...
- a side character in Minstrels of Fate who is striking people as very inconsistent and confusing; I'll need to rewrite her considerably.
- edits on older stories that have been set aside due to lack of time... and now I might actually have to DO SOMETHING.
- medical research for a Normal sequel; I love reading this stuff, honestly, but it is rather time-consuming as I wade through a lot of material.
~Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird
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Bird by Bird tells it like it is, and doesn't make writing sound like some magical, effortless task. I'm having one of those frustrated-writer weeks. I finished up this round of edits on Minstrels of Fate (YAY!) but that also means that for the first time in ages, I don't have a major project lurking in the background. Instead, I get to work on painful little stuff that makes perfectionist-me feel all prickly and incompetent.
- a short story I started on this week that has a fun concept that apparently fizzles out to nothing in the end...
- a side character in Minstrels of Fate who is striking people as very inconsistent and confusing; I'll need to rewrite her considerably.
- edits on older stories that have been set aside due to lack of time... and now I might actually have to DO SOMETHING.
- medical research for a Normal sequel; I love reading this stuff, honestly, but it is rather time-consuming as I wade through a lot of material.