Words is tricksy
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beccaelizabethThe last time I actually wrote any substantial amount of fiction?
August 31st 2011.
The last time I finished and published stuff?
... Ao3 thinks it was 7th August 2009.
There were a couple thousand words of fiction for college in there somewhere.
But I for certain haven't written anything even vaguely fictional since the start of 2013.
Two years, or four, or six.
The 4K words sitting waiting for me to get writing may be not terribly good, but they have the perfection of all first drafts, in that all they need to do is exist.
Onwards.
August 31st 2011.
The last time I finished and published stuff?
... Ao3 thinks it was 7th August 2009.
There were a couple thousand words of fiction for college in there somewhere.
But I for certain haven't written anything even vaguely fictional since the start of 2013.
Two years, or four, or six.
The 4K words sitting waiting for me to get writing may be not terribly good, but they have the perfection of all first drafts, in that all they need to do is exist.
Onwards.
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Date: 2015-04-23 05:27 pm (UTC)Could I have permission to quote in my creative writing handouts on process and revision? (I'd be willing to attribute you however you choose).
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Date: 2015-04-23 05:32 pm (UTC)google suggests it's "every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist" attributed to Jane Smiley.
If you like my phrasing better then sure, quote, by beccaelizabeth. But probably you want the other one.
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Date: 2015-04-23 11:18 pm (UTC)(for me I mean)
that maybe I'll never have this feeling again
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Date: 2015-04-24 07:19 am (UTC)