“As a creative person, one of the hardest things to stomach is a first draft. It destroys your notion of yourself as somebody who might be able to write. It’s like, the last thing you want to find out is that you can’t write. Right? But of course you can’t. I mean, nobody can. It doesn’t come out of the pen correctly. Which is a lesson I am constantly learning, I still struggle with. I still get very, very discouraged. And in a far more immature way than I should, having done this for this long.”
-Mitch Hurwitz, from the On Story podcast
I find it even more depressing when draft number ten still strikes you as sub-standard.
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Me too…
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A useful reminder
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