Memorable quote:
“It’s good for the soul to be beginnery.”
I want to bookmark this particular day. He spoke for quite a few minutes about the internal critic we all have and the self-doubt we go through while writing a book. It wasn’t long – maybe six or seven minutes or so, but enough that I have a few things I wrote down to keep.
He’s touched on this on and off through the week. While writing a draft, we’re so often tempted to compare the very raw, very rough first draft with finished novels we’ve read – novels that have gone through several drafts and multiple edits. Turning off the inner critic is a hard thing to do, but a necessary one because it’s not good for creativity.
I have a few quotes written down that I will be throwing at certain people when they need it. Sometimes you have to let things be shit in order to improve.
Nikki Bradley 