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_refugee_  ·  3414 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Dangers of Attachment - Putting Oneself Out There, and Rejections - Kenning Blog

I, like you (I perceive), produce a lot. I feel like constant production is very important. Often, when I fall for one recent creation, it's to the detriment of anything else written around the same time, which may end up possessing more strength, better structure, or even one or two lines that - if I came back and began to play with and finesse the poem - could develop into something great. I often ignore 90% of what I make until weeks or months after the fact. Sometimes I find myself revisiting my writing and going "Hey! This is pretty good! Why didn't I pay it any attention at the time?"

So many of my creations do die a quick death, forgotten by the roadside. Some come back to life after time and distance and when I'm sitting surrounded by pages, wracked by the feeling that everything I write is crap, and so sifting through all my recent works to see how I feel about that feeling and is it true?

What in the world would I do without writing? I cannot imagine it.