I forgot how slow writing is.
I've already sent many of you this quote, but here's the advice my dear mother told her Creative Writing students:
"Even if you don't like what's coming out, start writing as if you were starting a brisk walk trying to get somewhere."
My father's advice was somewhat different.
"Lower your standards. You're a perfectionist, like I am."
"It's not my standards. I'm bored of it."
"Hm. Maybe you should go out for a drink."
I know I had something else to say here, butI forgot what it was.
"Even if you don't like what's coming out, start writing as if you were starting a brisk walk trying to get somewhere."
My father's advice was somewhat different.
"Lower your standards. You're a perfectionist, like I am."
"It's not my standards. I'm bored of it."
"Hm. Maybe you should go out for a drink."
I know I had something else to say here, butI forgot what it was.
2 Comments:
Yeah, both of these have definitely worked for me at one point or another. I use your mother's advice with my paper-writing all the time. Your father's advice is saved for the most prickly situations.
By Anonymous, at 11:10 PM
I try to write until the Vapid Paralytic jumps on the keyboard. (Have you every tried to compose turgid prose with a cat sleeping across both your wrists?)
By Anonymous, at 11:55 AM
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