My very first blog post. My favorite poem from one of my favorite novels. A piece called ‘write poorly’.
“Write poorly
suck
write awful
terribly
frightfully
don’t care
turn off the inner editor
let yourself write
let it flow
let yourself fail
do something crazy
write fifty thousand words in the month of November
I did it
it was fun, it was insane, it was one thousand six hundred and sixty-seven words a day
it was possible
but you have to turn off your inner critic
off completely
just write
quickly
in bursts
with joy
if you can’t write, run away for a few
come back
write again
writing is like anything else
you won’t get good at it immediately
it’s a craft, you have to keep getting better
you don’t get to Juilliard unless you practice
if you want to get to Carnegie Hall,
practice, practice, practice
…or give them a lot of money
like anything else, it takes ten thousand hours to get to mastery
just like Malcolm Gladwell says
so write
fail
get your thoughts down
let it rest
let it marinate
then edit
but don’t edit as you type
that just slows the brain down
find a daily practice
for me it’s blogging every day
and it’s fun
the more you write, the easier it gets
the more it is a flow, the less a worry
it’s not for school, it’s not for a grade, it’s just to get your thoughts out there
you know they want to come out
so keep at it. make it a practice
and write poorly, write awfully, write with abandon
and it may end up being
really
really
good”
Point of retreat by Colleen Hoover
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