Post by scribbliz on Apr 3, 2014 14:11:59 GMT -5
just saw a post about something entirely unrelated, but a quote at the end caught my eye. it said "Don't judge your beginning by someone else's MIDDLE." i think for authors we're even more prone to this, judging our first drafts by someone else's published work. Don't do it. Your first draft (and mine) is our beginning, not their end, or even their middle. No one else can tell your story; only you can do that, but you can only do it if you let your beginning be what it's meant to be, a starting place, a point to jump from, a work IN PROGRESS, a work meant to be completed, to be revised, edited, and LOVED. But you will never get there if you stare at someone else's middle or end and say "i'm not that good. I can't write like that." You have no idea how long it took them to get there, or how many drafts, or how many editors/friends helped make it what you stare at. Don't compare your story to someone else's.