Ten Shun!
If you’re a typical writer you will sometimes look at what you’ve written and think to yourself ‘ well - this is complete crap that no-one will ever want to read and it’s an embarrassment that I ever thought I could do this in the first place’.
I have the same experience. Every time I write a book. The prose is wooden, the characters are unconvincing, the dialogue flops onto the page like a dead fish on a marble floor.
‘It’s complete crap’ is one of the many excuses writers use to give up ( along with ‘I don’t have the time’ or ‘I’ll never get published’ or ‘my keyboard keeps glitching’)
I’m not saying that what you’ve written isn’t crap.
It might well be.
( Although it’s less likely to be crap than the work of someone who is convinced that their writing is wonderful ).
What I’m saying is, it doesn’t matter.
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