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comment by _refugee_
_refugee_  ·  3742 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 15, 2014

They all always come out as garbage. It's only in the edit that words gain anything. Let them be garbage. Let the garbage flow through you.

When I write a story I usually have to write 1-2 pages of NONSENSE, drivel, meandering, just plain and simple nothing more than words before I realize what I want to say. I just have to shit or vomit it all out on paper. It's much later that everything becomes good, and cohesive, and maybe says what I want it to say. Just getting it all down in the first place - that's the work.