Get real

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Stop glamorizing writing and get real

But isn’t writing—especially blogging—supposed to be spontaneous? From the gut? Won’t too much fussing with grammar and editing ruin it?

The answers are sure, sure, and absolutely not.

Here’s the thing.

Spontaneous, in the moment, from-the-gut creativity is great. When the Muse is doing her work, words just rise up from deep in the unconscious mind. It’s almost effortless.

That’s what a rough draft is about. That’s freewriting or journaling. That’s what stream of consciousness writing is all about.

But even the most well-known stream of consciousness writers like William Faulkner, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and T.S. Eliot labored over revisions and rewrites.