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Writer’s Quote Wednesday

Writer’s Quote Wednesday is a weekly feature where I delve into famous writer’s words of wisdom and share how I have interpreted the meaning for my own creative endeavors to maybe help inspire yours!

  Understand me. I am not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

Nutshell. Me. This.

Seriously though this…

Writer’s Quote Wednesday

Writer’s Quote Wednesday is a weekly feature where I delve into famous writer’s words of wisdom and share how I have interpreted the meaning for my own creative endeavors to maybe help inspire yours!

    Very Few writer’s really know what they’re doing until they have done it.

If seeing is believing then for a writer being must be conceiving.

I mean can you really ask anyone going about…

It's Monday again. And here's some inspiration for my last minute papers that have been due for months and I'm feeling blue and feeling like shit like shitty first drafts.

I read this essay three years ago in an advanced composition class. I ending up independently conducting research for three months and writing a forty page paper. 4-0. 40. Pages. of Paper. Not over indented with 16 pt font periods. I never thought I could do something like that, Ever. But I did. And I survived.

So in writing all these small final papers I need to finish in order to pass this semester and graduate college (not overwhelming at all) I remind myself of all those shitty first drafts.

Everyone writes them. It's your first draft. It doesn't mean shit. It is shit. And you know it. But we have to write them anyway.

So as inspiration for this Monday I'm writing tons of shitty first drafts in honor of Anna Lamott's essay and thumbing my nose at the perfectionist in me.