The greatest gift you can give yourself is permission to suck and other handy tips for sucking less

A creative manifesto for aspiring writers and others with something to say, show, make, or release into the world.

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"The first thing is to get over yourself. The iron cage, the creative dream pecked at by crows. Your precious sparkly light. The inner tantrums, shocked that you're not yet THERE. The Scarlett O'Hara grandstanding, the knuckle-biting, that 'OMG! My first draft sucks!' thing.

Yeah. It sucks. So what? So does mine. Don't give a damn. Work on it."