Re: Re: Exotic work trips
By: esc to bex on Thu Sep 29 2022 05:54 pm

I received the best bit of advice a few years ago. "Give yourself permission to suck." Most people are discouraged when their first draft > be> is not very good. But almost *everyone's* first draft is not very good. > be> You are just getting ideas down, and those come out ugly in writers lik > be> me. Some people say they can pop out ready-to-publish first drafts. Mos > be> of the rest of us need at least another draft or two to make the writte > be> work into what we see in our mind's eye.

That's some good advice. I suffer from hating most things I create - I don't > like my singing voice, for example. And yeah, I don't really give myself
permission to suck, I hold myself to an impossible standard.

Damn, that is one amazing setting. And a spooky spontaneous destination >

It wasn't all that spooky in person! It was actually just a really cool, wel > preserved old castle with a ton of history.

Thank you for sharing that memory! That sounds like an adventure that will always live on in your memory. And it sounds like a story that would earn you a free drink or two at a local pub. (:

Ha! Too bad I don't drink! :P

I did some painting in my younger days and never thought much of it. I was never satisfied. I sold a lot of my paintings to make some scratch. I kept 2 here to put up on whatever home I am living in at the time. I appreciate them more 30 years later. I look at them and say to myself, "I did that."
Rixter
telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
---
þ Synchronet þ CJ's Place, Orange City, FL - cjsplace.thruhere.net