{"id":8617,"date":"2019-10-24T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/?p=8617"},"modified":"2019-10-23T17:17:16","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T00:17:16","slug":"when-the-final-product-satisfies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/when-the-final-product-satisfies\/","title":{"rendered":"When the final product satisfies."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Elizabeth Sims<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Whether you write fiction, non-fiction, poetry, songs, or\nwhatever you write, this might help understand why the final product isn\u2019t\nworking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpted from \u201cRough it Up,\u201d by Elizabeth Sims<\/a>, Writer’s Digest Magazine, February 2009, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get messy with your first draft to get to the good\nstuff.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Ernest Hemingway famously said, “The first draft of\nanything is sh*t.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, I didn’t understand. When I started writing\nfiction seriously, I kept trying to get it right the first time. Over time, as\nI got rougher with my first drafts, my finished work got better and better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why does a coherent first draft give birth to a stilted\nfinished product? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because it means you haven’t let it flow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You haven’t given yourself permission to make mistakes\nbecause you haven’t forgiven yourself for past ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Admit it: Unless your throttle’s wide open, you’re not\ngiving it everything you’ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Creativity in writing isn’t a linear process<\/strong>, even\nthough we read in a linear fashion and the words must go on the page one after\nthe other; even though we must put our thoughts and words in order so the\nreader can make sense of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing, in fact, is the only art that is literally\none-dimensional. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you can be gut-level honest with yourself, you’ve really\ngot a shot at your readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 And the only way to\nfind that honesty is to not overthink it. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consider your pen your paintbrush.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For your writing to come alive — to be multi-dimensional\n— you must barter away some control. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rewards are worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prompts to inspire writing.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Whether you write fiction, non-fiction, poetry, songs, or whatever you write, this might help understand why the final product isn\u2019t working. Excerpted from \u201cRough it Up,\u201d by Elizabeth Sims, Writer’s Digest Magazine, February 2009, Get messy with your first draft to get to the good stuff.  As Ernest Hemingway famously said, “The first draft of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[126],"tags":[1264],"class_list":["post-8617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-write-2","tag-elizabeth-sims-just-write"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43Dj8-2eZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8620,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8617\/revisions\/8620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewritespot.us\/marlenecullenblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}