Bridget C
Bridget C
Jul 23, 2017 · 1 min read

I once heard a comedian say that it was easier to be a comic pre 1960s because you could go to small clubs and the Catskills and practice without having every error of yours memorialized on tape. A photographer once told me it was easier to be a good photographer pre-digital because you could easily throw out the bad prints once you developed them. Just toss them and never look at them again. But that was after it was developed.

Write a story every day. Don’t publish it on Medium. Don’t publish it anywhere. Don’t re-read it. Don’t edit it.

Just write it.

Six weeks after you’ve finished, THEN look at it.

You’re not giving yourself distance and without distance, you can’t see something clearly.

What you think of your writing should not be dependent on whether or not a thousand people like you on Medium. It can’t be dependent on your immediate reaction to it. It’s a draft.

We’ve all hated every word we’ve written. Read it again in six weeks and clear the crap about outside beliefs away.

When you can look at your own writing clearly, then make your decisions.

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