Gotta Have Clay Before You Can Sculpt

"Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction." ~Dylan Thomas, letter to Vernon Watkins, March 1938

If your writing is bad, celebrate. Bad writing means you've actually gotten something out onto the page. Everything has to start somewhere, and sometimes it turns out better than you anticipated. To me, you've gotta have clay before you can sculpt. This means that you have to have something to work with before you can make it into something beautiful. So if you're postponing writing while you figure out how to get it down just right, throw caution to the wind. Don't let the lack of perfection prevent you from writing. Just do it write now. Be committed--and "if things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction." Don't fail because you never try. If you're going to fail, go down in glorious flames (and as we discussed you'll actually have something to work with).

Want a prompt?  Flames

Just do it write now.