11/17/2020

I started writing today…

…not just in a notebook, but here, in my text editor¹, and I had to stop. Because it was garbage. I’m not one to shy away from the SFD (generally), but this was particularly bad (though the idea is still one that I want to continue to explore). So I stopped. I stopped and I started again.

In the men’s group that I facilitate, we had a conversation about this last week — about starting over. Again and again. At every moment, even. We can always start over.

No matter how shitty that draft is.

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1. Is it breaking the fourth wall to point to the tool with which we write? Me? I used Drafts.↩

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