Today was one of those drivel writing days. I was
decrying this on facebook. You know, poor me. I’m writing drivel. My sentences
are drivel and my paragraphs are drivel and I’m beginning to feel as if the
whole new manuscript is drivel. Well, I didn’t go that far on facebook but I
will here. I fell into that place of self-loathing where I considered
select-all, highlight, delete and…….good-bye cruel drivel.
BUT I didn’t. Sometimes we should but most times
when we’re writing early drafts we’re writing a lot of drivel. I reminded
myself that all novels start as ugly ducklings. Of course not all will become
swans but that’s not really the point. You have to believe and you have to keep
on as if everything you write will make that miraculous transformation.
Give your manuscript a chance. Keep going and
believing and don’t be discouraged by drivel. A little or sometimes a lot of
drivel must fall into every manuscript. Revision, rewriting, editing…we have
lots of chances to make our ugly ducklings swans.
Or so I think today.
1 comment:
Very well said.
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