[karolkozub]

Typed out version:

> General Note to Myself

> Writing isn't so bad really when you get through the worry. Forget about the worry, just press on. Don't be embarrassed about the bad bits. Don't strain at them. Give yourself time you can come back and do it again in the light of what you discover about the story later on. It's better to have pages and pages of material to work with and sift and maybe find an unexpected shape in that you can then craft and put to good use, rather than one manically reworked paragraph or sentence.

> But writing can be good. You attack it, don't let it attack you. You can get pleasure out of it. You can certainly do very well for yourself with it...!

[runevault]

Yeah, I'm in the middle of editing a novel I wrote late last year right now. A big thing I figured out was it it okay to leave out some of what a final draft needs because I can do it later. Right now I'm actually adding more rich descriptions to a lot of my scenes because I just didn't bother originally, and simply not worrying about it let me focus on the things I knew I needed and now I'm fixing it.

Not trying to do everything at once makes writing prose way easier.