"How much of my writing needs to exist? It’s not like I’m producing semiconductors, or beehives, or lipsticks that stay put even when you eat a burrito, or other things the world truly needs..." THIS. What a reframe I needed today. I have been in a phase of first draft-hording lately - generating a ton of writing that goes... nowhere. What a great reminder to look at some of my recent drafts with a mind for quality over quantity.
Aw thanks Hannah ❤️ I do think it’s especially odd when writers don’t read their own genre... like... it would be ~very~ difficult to write something you’re not familiar with! I would think!
“Read promiscuously.” Yeeess! Hopefully a past tense summation on my headstone. Also lol Karen Russel’s line about people in sweaters and the multiple ways you dissolve into puddles of goo 😆
"How much of my writing needs to exist? It’s not like I’m producing semiconductors, or beehives, or lipsticks that stay put even when you eat a burrito, or other things the world truly needs..." THIS. What a reframe I needed today. I have been in a phase of first draft-hording lately - generating a ton of writing that goes... nowhere. What a great reminder to look at some of my recent drafts with a mind for quality over quantity.
Thank you for this!
Brilliant as always. Love reading the snippets of your writer conversations too! Gosh the reading one!
Aw thanks Hannah ❤️ I do think it’s especially odd when writers don’t read their own genre... like... it would be ~very~ difficult to write something you’re not familiar with! I would think!
I did this exercise recently with a line from Death In Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh. Such a great way to dig into and begin a piece.
Oh nice! I find it makes me slow down in a useful way ...
This is so true! I've find myself doing too much reading for work/study recently, so this month I only read thrillers and it's been SO MUCH FUN.
Right?? Like remember just reading for FUN?
THANK YOU for this reminder. I, like many of us writer beings, tend to forget it pretty often. 😁
Oh good, I’m glad I’m not the only one! 😅
“Read promiscuously.” Yeeess! Hopefully a past tense summation on my headstone. Also lol Karen Russel’s line about people in sweaters and the multiple ways you dissolve into puddles of goo 😆
I am goo-adjacent at all times, it’s no one’s fault but my own
Lol