Posts Tagged ‘note to self’
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Like a lot of writers, I can’t really stand my own writing, in the same way that I don’t really like my own cooking. And, just as when I go out to eat, I tend not to order my signature dish–an overcooked and overspiced meat-stewy thing containing something inappropriate, like tinned peaches, and a side order of undercooked and flavorless vegetable–I really don’t want to read anything that I could have come up with on my own computer. What I produce on my computer invariably turns out to be an equivalent of the undercooked overcooked stewy thing, no matter how hard I try to follow the recipe, and you really don’t want to eat too much of that.
The Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby
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there’s just a very strong possibility that this could be the best thing to ever happen to you and i don’t want you to miss out because you’re a chickenshit.
She is totally right. I have to get over this.
note to self:
Do NOT re-read the novel before it’s done. You find plotholes and wince and curse through the whole thing and you end up feeling ridiculous and unworthy.
Just don’t do it.
