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Write Every Day: 03 August 02019
Aug. 3rd, 2019 08:31 pmGreetings! This is the Write Every Day Check-in post for 03 August 02019.
I don't have much for advice or a story today, but I did want to mention that one of the things that I have to keep reminding myself about, when it comes to writing or any other of my various skills, is that I don't have to be perfect to do what I want to do. If I could turn out perfect stories, that would be cool, but also, if all of my stories had to actually be perfect, I'd never have anything done or sent off. Sometimes having a deadline makes you realize that good enough is what you want to shoot for, and that you, like me, are good enough. Even if you're just getting started, you're good enough to just be getting started. You Are Good Enough is one of those mantras that I have to believe in, or things go downhill fast.
Thankfully, I'm not the only person who believes this. Courtney Summers does, too, and wants you to believe that there's no magic point where someone else says you've made your career. There's a spot where you decide you belong, and you go from there.
I closed the book on one of the volumes of the Giving of Grief and then adderd some more to my currently open assignment, so it was a productive day in writing. And I tried to whittle my way through some of the interesting links that I have open in another browser window. We'll see if I make it all the way through.
( It's tally time! )
I don't have much for advice or a story today, but I did want to mention that one of the things that I have to keep reminding myself about, when it comes to writing or any other of my various skills, is that I don't have to be perfect to do what I want to do. If I could turn out perfect stories, that would be cool, but also, if all of my stories had to actually be perfect, I'd never have anything done or sent off. Sometimes having a deadline makes you realize that good enough is what you want to shoot for, and that you, like me, are good enough. Even if you're just getting started, you're good enough to just be getting started. You Are Good Enough is one of those mantras that I have to believe in, or things go downhill fast.
Thankfully, I'm not the only person who believes this. Courtney Summers does, too, and wants you to believe that there's no magic point where someone else says you've made your career. There's a spot where you decide you belong, and you go from there.
I closed the book on one of the volumes of the Giving of Grief and then adderd some more to my currently open assignment, so it was a productive day in writing. And I tried to whittle my way through some of the interesting links that I have open in another browser window. We'll see if I make it all the way through.
( It's tally time! )
