Hi, my name is Katherine, and I'm a self-censor.
("Hi, Katherine!")
It really slows me down, because I get bogged down in resisting what happens in a story.
The first draft is not the time to decide whether something is kitsch, or too unpleasant, or whatever. Decide whether it's kitsch in rewrites. Be your own enabler.
Posted by Katherine Mankiller at March 12, 2006 3:51 PMTrackBack URL for this entry:
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Fellow self-censor waves 'hello!'
Posted by: Another Voice in the Cacophony, March 12, 2006 9:49 PM
*waves "hello" back*
It's hard, isn't it? I had Jen encouraging me to make things worse on "Book of Shadows," which helped immensely.
Posted by: Katherine Mankiller, March 12, 2006 10:22 PM
Yeah, I keep having to remind myself of that as I'm writing my current story. "Just get to the end," I keep saying. "But...but..." the internal censor says. "Shut the fuck up!" I say. Eventually, the yelling becomes too much and I decide that I'm done writing for the day.
Posted by: Jen Writes, March 13, 2006 7:04 AM