Wordsmithy

July 16, 2012 Michelle Griep

I started reading a new craft book, and this one promises to be chock-full of encouragement and insight. I hadn't even finished the introduction before I found a great tidbit to share with you. Here it is:

"Be at peace with being lousy for a while.
Chesterton once said that anything worth doing was worth doing badly. He was right. Only an insufferable egoist expects to be brilliant first time out. Some writers--those who live charmed lives--have been brilliant first time out, but this happens so rarely that we shouldn't care who they are." (pg.11)

WORDSMITHY by Douglas Wilson is definitely a craft book worthy of your time.