It's like I'm powerful with a little bit of tender
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This week: the fear of first drafts, the value of teasing, and why you don't need to walk 10,000 steps today. THE FIRST DRAFT CLUB I enjoyed this reminder, from the writer Ryan Holiday, that "the first draft of anything is shit". Having said that, I'm reminded of it more often than I'd like. It's the most painful thing about writing, and it must be the single thing that stops writing from getting done at all. You have this idea, this vision, this thing you want to say, and then you get some words on a page and they're just so embarrassingly lame that you give up. If you write for a living it's because you've learned to get through this bit, though it never quite goes away. What you have to bear in mind is that the reader sees none of it. The reader doesn't know shit about all the shit that went down before the words they see, or about all the work that went into making it like this. Writing is a confidence trick. Like other confidence tricks, even when you know how it's done, you still believe in it. Good writing always
It's like I'm powerful with a little bit of tender
It's like I'm powerful with a little bit of…
It's like I'm powerful with a little bit of tender
This week: the fear of first drafts, the value of teasing, and why you don't need to walk 10,000 steps today. THE FIRST DRAFT CLUB I enjoyed this reminder, from the writer Ryan Holiday, that "the first draft of anything is shit". Having said that, I'm reminded of it more often than I'd like. It's the most painful thing about writing, and it must be the single thing that stops writing from getting done at all. You have this idea, this vision, this thing you want to say, and then you get some words on a page and they're just so embarrassingly lame that you give up. If you write for a living it's because you've learned to get through this bit, though it never quite goes away. What you have to bear in mind is that the reader sees none of it. The reader doesn't know shit about all the shit that went down before the words they see, or about all the work that went into making it like this. Writing is a confidence trick. Like other confidence tricks, even when you know how it's done, you still believe in it. Good writing always