A Writerly Pep Talk
Perfection is itself the most perfect lie.
You can be destructive to yourself
or you can be constructive instead.
You cannot walk another's journey.
Why would you want to?
We all chart our own course
and burn the map afterward.
You can do this.
It'll take work and time.
You want to write? Then write.
Write better today than you did yesterday
and better tomorrow than you did today."
~ Chuck Wendig
Easy: Wallowing in self-despair over your writing.
Hard: Writing anyway.
Easy: Stoking a slow burning envy fire in your gut because someone else's writing is better.
Hard: Writing anyway.
Easy: Giving up.
Hard: Writing anyway.
Noticing a theme here? Writers write, no matter how they feel or what kind of opposition they're up against. Don't wait for a hand to reach down and pull you up the writerly food-chain. Yank yourself up, rung by rung, all shaky muscles and sweaty and exhausted. No, I can't promise you'll reach the top . . . but you'll be higher than if you didn't climb at all.