Sorry you had a couple of less productive days, but it happens to all of us. The important thing is to keep writing, even if on some days it's not a lot. As you say, it's a good idea to build up the habits and learn how to produce words even if you're unhappy about the quality at the moment of writing. That's definitely how the writing has worked for me. When I've learned the habit of writing regularly, it's much easier to produce content, and then I can start sorting out the bad and the good and what I can improve and what I can't, and start doing something better out of it. I require a few rewrites per draft anyway, so the important thing is to have a first draft to work with, not that the first draft needs to be particularly good. You can't edit text that doesn't exist, after all. And, as a podcast I listened to said today, to become a good writer, you have to first be a bad writer - so even if you don't like what you've written, it's a step on the way to writing something better, and without that step you won't get ahead. Besides, we're often our own worst critics, and often something that I didn't think was that good when I wrote it turns out to be better later, when I reread it with more distance.
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Date: 2019-06-21 03:38 pm (UTC)Sorry you had a couple of less productive days, but it happens to all of us. The important thing is to keep writing, even if on some days it's not a lot. As you say, it's a good idea to build up the habits and learn how to produce words even if you're unhappy about the quality at the moment of writing. That's definitely how the writing has worked for me. When I've learned the habit of writing regularly, it's much easier to produce content, and then I can start sorting out the bad and the good and what I can improve and what I can't, and start doing something better out of it. I require a few rewrites per draft anyway, so the important thing is to have a first draft to work with, not that the first draft needs to be particularly good. You can't edit text that doesn't exist, after all. And, as a podcast I listened to said today, to become a good writer, you have to first be a bad writer - so even if you don't like what you've written, it's a step on the way to writing something better, and without that step you won't get ahead. Besides, we're often our own worst critics, and often something that I didn't think was that good when I wrote it turns out to be better later, when I reread it with more distance.
*cheers you on*