[RosieCotton]

Don't worry about making a first draft perfect! Completion is more important than perfection.

Not to mention...while I'm writing I always feel like what I write is completely choppy and patch-worked - it's often obvious to me where I left off for a day or where I was in a different mood or not sure how I felt about a character. But when I go back to something I wrote years back, it usually turns out to work fine. It's the whole fly-on-a-painting effect. ;-) When you get too close to something, you get so focused on the little imperfections that you miss seeing that the whole work ain't that bad.

[Number57]

Wow. Yeah that choppy, patchwork thing is what drives me nuts, but it IS the way I write. Its only when I am in edit-mode that I drive myself nuts. I shouldn't do that.

I'm sure this won't make me a GREAT writer, but it might make me a better writer..

thnx everyone!

[El Gran Salseron]

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