Quotable: "The worst thing you write..."
“The worst thing you write is better than the best thing you didn’t write.” — Unknown
I found this quote (via a post on the Signal v. Noise blog comparing writing words to writing software) in an essay about “writing your first novel,” but it applies to everything you can try writing. For interesting blends of the obvious with the profound, it’s right up there with “You’re guaranteed to miss 100% of the pitches you don’t swing at.”
Don’t let the fear of failure paralyze you. Edison tried thousands of different filaments in his light bulbs until he found something that worked. He never considered those thousands of attempts to be failures; they were opportunities to learn. Look at everything you write, every opportunity you have to put words on paper, the same way.
Roy Jacobsen
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Source: Writing Your First Novel
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