for real like trying to ignore an elephant standing in my living room to me lmao it doesn't help that i basically never rewrote up until very recently, so i just thought my work sucked. i'd go in to edit and get frustrated because i couldn't fix the issues... took me many years to work out that i

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i know,,, but,,,,,, it still sucks!! hhhhh 😭 i often need the reminder, i guess it's like... i know that's what the first draft is for, but it still feels bad just because i hate rereading what i wrote and cringing at it LOL, plus stuff i want to change just jumps out at me. trying to ignore it is

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That mindset shift sounds huge. Treating a rough draft as something you can actually rebuild must feel so different after years of seeing it as “the story.” What’s been the biggest surprise since you started revising that way?

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entire writing process rn and so i'm just struggling with not shaming my drafts lol sorry for the ramble i hope this makes sense! i do really like the example of the marble though. the writing process feels a lot like doing sculpture (i dabble in some 3d art stuff) so i'll keep that in mind. ty.

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actually love rewriting (which i used to dread) and find it really fun, but it's also super tedious/slow. which is annoying. and i also Hate rereading my drafts now dnxusuxhshx,,, that's the worst part to me. so it's hard not to hate my drafts and not rework them as i go. basically i'm reworking my

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