At this point, I feel like dear Julia is just repeating things she’s said previously, just in new ways. Which, in a sense, is a way of writing and can make things stick better when repeated in multiple different ways.
Anyways, this new chapter is focused on just letting yourself, don’t polish and edit as you go, “Early in my writing life, I tried to polish as I went. Each sentence, each paragraph, each page, had to flow from and build on what went before it. I thought a lot about all of this. I really worked at it. I toiled at being a writer. This meant long, stubborn hours writing and re-writing, crossing out and then adding back again. Writing this way was frustrating, difficult, and disheartening, like trying to write a movie and cut it at the same time.”
Writing also depends on your mood, sometimes you’re in an expansive or happy mood and your writing is so much better! But other times, you’re in a negative and constricted mood and then your writing just sucks. So if you just hold back a bit, just write what comes to mind, and polish later? Well, then it’ll all be so much more relaxing and enjoyable to write!
“I had never realized that all of my drama around writing was exactly that, drama. I had never realized that drama about the page had little to do with the real drama that was supposed to exist on the page.”
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