They Called Me Peaches

Johnny Cash poses in front of the Dixie 576 locomotive in Nashville. Photographed by Michael Rougier for Life magazine, October 1969.

via @una-lady-italiana

Best trick I ever picked up. Seriously.

This is seriously the best advice, and it really helps put it into perspective that the first draft is just that- a draft. There’s no reason to agonize over a particularly tricky bit of writing when you could just leave it in brackets and skip to the good parts, the parts you’ve visualized. I also use brackets for [fact-check this], [use a stronger verb], [is this in character?] and other notes as I write, just so I don’t forget what I want to work on when I go back and edit.