Sunday, June 3, 2012

It's Okay to Suck


It's okay to suck
“You will never be perfect. Never. You will eventually finish stories and novels and achieve a sense of accomplishment, of satisfaction, even. You’ll start to get confident in your work. But the story will never appear on the page the same way it did in your head. And that’s OK. It happens to all of us. Your job is to tell the story in the best way you can. When you’re done, put it down and write something else. You can edit later. Right now, just focus on letting go of the perfect shining image of the story in your head, sitting down, and writing it. And if it sucks, so what? Your next story will be better.
I have faith in you. The day you accept that your writing is allowed to suck is your first day of being a writer—the day you set yourself free.”
- Mur Lafferty, from the book “Write Good or Die”

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