“For a long time, I had a post-it note on my computer that read “Be More Barry,” but all it did was remind me that I am a useless layabout who gets eyestrain after a few hours at my desk.” 🤣🤣 love this!
I also cannot do the “Barrying” thing but your sharing about this man is delightful.
Love the pic of you and your dog. 🫶🏻
For my writing, when I'm “on it,” I have high productivity but then I need a mental break for a few days. I'm not sure if it is best only to work one hour to two per day (I do set time away each morning before my day job) or write most of the weekend or be super intense and write as much as possible but I don't think I have the stamina. 🧐 I guess we all develop our own processes that work but it is brilliant advice to write something “good” because “perfect” is paralysing.
My therapist is all about the path of least resistance and what is the minimum per week I would be happy doing and “done is better than perfect.”
I think I read something years ago about how we are critical of our own work because we know what “exellent” work looks like but we know we aren't there yet but having “good taste” as far as knowing what good writing is like is half the battle. And yes, just write the “shitty first draft” and edit edit edit. I was watching Lee Child’s masterclass and his tip was to read and edit the previous day’s words at the start of each writing session and then begin the new words.
I missed this comment at the time, sorry! But just to say, the person you are talking about is Ira Glass who explained that at the beginning you have taste but not talent (or maybe it was skill?) and that a lot of people give up at that stage. But if you keep going, you will have both taste and skill.
Yes! That’s it. Thank you. I couldn’t recall who said it and Google was coming up short. Not to imply anything about your writing because I love it and I’m sure everything you’re writing is lovely! I can’t wait to read your novel. ☺️
“For a long time, I had a post-it note on my computer that read “Be More Barry,” but all it did was remind me that I am a useless layabout who gets eyestrain after a few hours at my desk.” 🤣🤣 love this!
I also cannot do the “Barrying” thing but your sharing about this man is delightful.
Love the pic of you and your dog. 🫶🏻
For my writing, when I'm “on it,” I have high productivity but then I need a mental break for a few days. I'm not sure if it is best only to work one hour to two per day (I do set time away each morning before my day job) or write most of the weekend or be super intense and write as much as possible but I don't think I have the stamina. 🧐 I guess we all develop our own processes that work but it is brilliant advice to write something “good” because “perfect” is paralysing.
My therapist is all about the path of least resistance and what is the minimum per week I would be happy doing and “done is better than perfect.”
I do feel like most of the “resistance” comes from trying to be great instead of trying to lay down words than can be fixed in the edit.
I think I read something years ago about how we are critical of our own work because we know what “exellent” work looks like but we know we aren't there yet but having “good taste” as far as knowing what good writing is like is half the battle. And yes, just write the “shitty first draft” and edit edit edit. I was watching Lee Child’s masterclass and his tip was to read and edit the previous day’s words at the start of each writing session and then begin the new words.
I missed this comment at the time, sorry! But just to say, the person you are talking about is Ira Glass who explained that at the beginning you have taste but not talent (or maybe it was skill?) and that a lot of people give up at that stage. But if you keep going, you will have both taste and skill.
Yes! That’s it. Thank you. I couldn’t recall who said it and Google was coming up short. Not to imply anything about your writing because I love it and I’m sure everything you’re writing is lovely! I can’t wait to read your novel. ☺️