Lit Yoga

I tried to fight it but I find myself reluctantly inspired by this song. ugh.

So… 

Keep going!  You have a story, and you want to tell it.  That makes it important.  That makes it worth telling.  If people say otherwise, ignore them.

When you write something and are then dismayed at how crappy/bad/not up to quality it is, that is your brain going “I know what I want, I know how to do this, and this isn’t it”.  You’re working your own personal quality filters in order to get at something that is the quality YOU enjoy, that you perceive to be the best; but no one starts out there.  Most of the time people start out crying and struggling and saying “Why isn’t this as good as I want it to be???” and that’s exactly where you SHOULD be starting.  You should be starting there (as a writer) because it means you have a goal to reach, a level of quality that means “This Is Good, This Is Quality”, to reach for.  You’ve built up that level by reading(/watching/playing/seeing) all the books and movies and stories you’ve ever read.  And that’s intimidating, so when what you produce isn’t there, discouragement is bound to happen.  That means you need to keep going, because every time you keep going, you are fine-tuning your creative output muscles and bringing themcloser to where you want your creative output muscles to be.

Keep going.  Build up a Team You, who will be your cheerleaders and soundboarders and take you out for drinks or tea or delicious ramen when you’re feeling really down about your work.  You can talk about your characters, your ideas, your plots to them.  Anything!  And if it turns out that your friends or other people who you approach to be on your Team You aren’t what you need, you take them off the team.