Day 16

In the same way that you have to clear a lot of stuff that doesn’t sound like music out of an instrument before you can make music come out of it, you have to get a lot of bad writing out of the way before the good words come out. At least I hope so. I imagine all writers hope the same thing. On the far side of all the self-consciousness, the self-importance, the hubris, the ever-fragile ego, and the laziness you hope there is something with meaning. You hope you have, after all of the above, something to say.