Write junk. Always.
Because, out of quantity comes quality -- eventually. :-)
Some writers get all huffy when I suggest this. JUNK?! They want to write well -- brilliantly, actually.
Nothing less than sheer brilliance will do.
Guess how much they write?
Yes, they write... nothing, because their words don't match the vision in their head.
Listen up.
You write what you write.
That's all.
On any given day, your words may sound as if they were typed by a monkey with attention deficit disorder.
On other days, your words may not make sense at all.
Again: you write what you write, on any given day.
It's ALWAYS fine, and here's why: you wrote. Now you have a beginning. You have words which you can massage.
The "I want to write brilliantly" crowd never write anything. These writers think they have "no talent" when the truth is that they simply have high expectations for their early drafts.
No one's ever told them that professional writers' words are like the tip of an iceberg. There's a lot of junk underneath the good stuff on top.
So, write. Count your words. My daily must-write word count has been 1000 words for at least 20 years.
I relax, because I know that all I need to do is produce the words. I know there's more where those words came from, and I'm not particularly attached to any of them.
Drop your expectations, and count your words. Your daily word count counts.
Want an easy writing process? Here you go: the Easy-Write Process.
