"Don't be afraid to write crap because crap makes great fertilizer." ~~ Jessica Brody
And, this is the point in my writing year where I find it hard to continue. After I staggered to the end of the March slicing challenge my brain says, "No More. I have nothing left to blog about."
I didn't write yesterday.
I almost didn't write today.
The procrastinating starts easily enough. "I'm just going to skip today."
One day doesn't matter.
But then tomorrow comes.
I'll write later after I ____________________ (fill in the blank)
Only later never comes.
And before you know it, a week, a month passed. And you haven't written a word.
So, that's why I'm writing now. Publishing now. Crap though it is.
I need to start filling up notebook pages again.
Crap though they are. Because somewhere in the lines I wrote today will be the beginnings of a poem or a slice of life. Someday I'll look back and be glad that I took the time to write.
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ReplyDeleteI love that you come back to WRITING in a NOTEBOOK! In our rush to move away from paper and implement, I think we've lost something. (I'm a teacher, so I'd say developing writers have, too.)
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