So I've realized that I have a few obstacles to writing, other than laziness. The first is that, in reference to journaling, anyway, dates and times make me feel depressed if I havent' written in a while (Which usually I haven't). Easy to fix, right? No more dates. (except maybe important ones). But in NOVEL writing, my biggest fear is that, whne I pick a plot, it's going to be bad, stupid, or, if the PLOT isn't, that I'll be really bad at writing it. But I realized something. In life, we don't just stop living because we are on the wrong path, or we are bad at it, or week keep making mistakes! (well, I hope not anyway). When we make a mistake, we realize it, mope about it a bit maybe, try to fix it as best as we can, then repent and move on, slightly wiser than we were before, I might add. I mean, we were put on this Earth by God, not to be perfect, but so that we could MAKE MISTAKES AND LEARN FROM THEM. Likewise, no one expects you to be a perfect writer. That's what EDITING'S for. The first draft is MADE to look like a pile of poop! The purpose of a ROUGH, let me emphasize ROUGH, draft, is to get a feel for the story. But don't let the fact that it isn't going to be perft stop you! I can guarantee that ANY author's rough draft sucks. I don't care if you're flipping SHAKESPEARE. His rough drafts sucked too. So go ahead, write the crappiest rough draft that ever lived. Because only then can it be made better. If it was supposed to be otherwise, God would have left Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden.
