A Punch In The Face: Rewrites Are A Bitch
adlandcreative.wordpress.com Story ideas run around my head all the time. Usually, fear keeps them up there. I'm dying to write something people want to read. So, I joined a writers group hoping it would encourage me to write. The first meeting was approaching and I wanted to submit. I got my ass into gear and wrote a short story NaNoWriMo style. It was the only way I knew how. Mistake number one. I submitted the story. The other two members returned it with a lot of constructive criticism. I understood what they were kind enough not to say. My story was crap. It read like a 12-year-old wrote it. I needed help. After the meeting, the story went into hiding until the week before the second meeting. Honestly, I just didn't want to face the fact that I can't write well. I read over the story and feedback. Ideas for improvements came to me immediately....