can’t bear to write badly and don’t have the talent to write well
Wow. This is how I feel about my own writing, expressed more clearly than I could myself. I take ages to write a single sentence because none of the phrasings my brain suggests sound like the kind of thing that I’d want to read.
If you wish to write despite this struggle, I recommend breaking writing into two tasks: dumping and editing. Basically, force yourself to ignore the “kind of thing I’d want to read” feeling for as long as it takes to generate a bunch of sentences. Then you can turn those sentences into readable sentences, in editing.
This handy page will make it significantly easier to ignore the editing urge.
Wow. This is how I feel about my own writing, expressed more clearly than I could myself. I take ages to write a single sentence because none of the phrasings my brain suggests sound like the kind of thing that I’d want to read.
If you wish to write despite this struggle, I recommend breaking writing into two tasks: dumping and editing. Basically, force yourself to ignore the “kind of thing I’d want to read” feeling for as long as it takes to generate a bunch of sentences. Then you can turn those sentences into readable sentences, in editing.
This handy page will make it significantly easier to ignore the editing urge.