Avi

word craft

blog

When what you are writing is poor

gr_re-doIf you are a good writer, and you know what good writ­ing is, one of the very hard aspects of writ­ing is know­ing that what you are cur­rent­ly writ­ing is poor.

That may seem like a con­tra­dic­tion. Nev­er­the­less, it is not. To write is hard enough. To write well is that much hard­er. Since, in all like­li­hood, what drew you to writ­ing was and is good writ­ing, you will be acute­ly aware of your own fail­ings. Or should be.

It is use­ful to remem­ber that nobody—NOBODY—writes any­thing well the first time. It is equal­ly use­ful to recall that good writ­ing comes about when you rewrite many times. It nev­er can be said often enough; the time you take is always part of the equa­tion when it comes to writing.

Peo­ple often ask me what suc­cess in writ­ing has giv­en me. It’s sim­ple: suc­cess in writ­ing has giv­en me the patience to work with my writ­ing failures.

1 thought on “When what you are writing is poor”

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.