Me, giving advice: Your first draft will be shit! Embrace it! The real work is in the editing! Me, writing: This sentence isn't perfect I'm scrapping the whole thing this sucks - ThreadSky

loottheroom.bsky.social • 82 days ago

Me, giving advice: Your first draft will be shit! Embrace it! The real work is in the editing!

Me, writing: This sentence isn't perfect I'm scrapping the whole thing this sucks

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gorgonlurker.bsky.social•82 days ago

Same tbh 😅

stuffryandoes.bsky.social•82 days ago

It's taken me over a decade and time with a writing coach to get over that obstacle.

kiennas.bsky.social•82 days ago

Pain

moral1sakasergei.bsky.social•82 days ago

What you say in confidence and idealism, if albeit, may be true, will not necessarily be what you end up doing when placed in a given situation in question with all the emotions and fee fees that come with it.

steaksammy.bsky.social•82 days ago

This should be in the Twitter account setup instructions.

loottheroom.bsky.social•82 days ago

What's Twitter?

steaksammy.bsky.social•82 days ago

Nobody knows.

authoredbyhallie.bsky.social•82 days ago

The struggle 😂

lyelhaz.posts.art•82 days ago

I misread "draft" as "date". 🤦

ajonesjohnson.bsky.social•82 days ago

Oh, the accuracy…

thewelshdm.bsky.social•82 days ago

Literally forced myself into writing something, not looking back at any sentence, last night. Promising myself I can review it today.

tidalwavegames.com•82 days ago

Me, editing: Actually this whole room sucks, what if I just wrote a completely different one lol

standup18.bsky.social•82 days ago

That's been me lately

ferretfra.bsky.social•82 days ago

theguynamedron.bsky.social•82 days ago

Me: "Repeat after me. If it's not perfect on the first try, it's a learning opportunity and I get to try again."

Also me: "It's trash, I'm trash. And I am NEVER trying that again."

classicfletcher.bsky.social•82 days ago

Ouch. I felt this. Just… ouch.

paulbittlestone.bsky.social•81 days ago

Me 2015, I'll buy this specialised writing software to help do more writing.
Me 2024, goddammit microsoft word autocorrect, spellcheck, suggestion burn in hell you piece of s*@t. Quits and plays Hearts of Iron IV.
In iron-man mode.

taylorannnx.bsky.social•82 days ago

How dare you call me out like this 😂

jimmy3jay.bsky.social•82 days ago

For me, first draft is just about getting approximate words in approximate order. Don't stop to check anything, highlight to check later

Print out triple spaced. Go through with a red pen rewrite about 75%. Do any checking.

Type corrections into Word, changing another 25%

Final check, submit

dfprovine.bsky.social•82 days ago

You can edit a rough draft. You can't edit a blank page.

loottheroom.bsky.social•82 days ago

I absolutely can

scrappper.bsky.social•82 days ago

ME: "Just get the words onto the page. It will come together in the end."

ALSO ME: "This is never going to come together at this rate. I should start over."

brazenhussy.bsky.social•82 days ago

One of the best things about being a writing teacher is that you can give yourself the advice you give your students. Whenever I'm stuck, I do this. It's hard, though. For some reason we want to be in our own way.

thetimothyscott.bsky.social•82 days ago

Me: Just write, you can't edit a blank page.
Me Editing: Who wrote this, the cat? A blank page says more than this drivel...

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