“Everybody has a plan until they get hit. Then, like a rat, they stop in fear and freeze.”
– Mike Tyson
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“It helps, laying things down on paper. I call it ‘unfolding’. Everyone can do this, it doesn’t take expertise. Think of it as doodling, but with words. There’s a tyranny to education: learning to write frees you, but we’re restricted by being taught that formal sentences are all that’s worthwhile. Instead, scribble down fragments–think up half-lines mixed with song lyrics, lines from films, things people say. Don’t overthink it–it’s like talking with your pen. This process is a liberation for the mind.”
– Michael Rosen, Getting Better: Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it
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My writing isn’t perfect.
But it is done.
It’s released.
It’s available.
It is abundant.
I write in imperfect fragments.
But they are real.
They can be read.
They are infinitely better than the figments of my imagination.
They don’t exist.
They are useless.
They can’t be shared.
They are selfish.
Perfect is a figment of the imagination.
Perfection freezes at first contact with reality.
My writing is alive and free when it has been shared.
Ideas that are hoarded are fearful.
I am not afraid.
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