AmyVanHym

Maybe you’ve heard that first drafts are supposed to suck, but what does that really mean? What does a sucky first draft look like? How do you allow yourself to suck? Why would you even want to allow yourself to write something that sucks in the first place? Because otherwise, you’ll most likely be crippled by the writer’s arch nemesis: perfectionism. Did you just cringe? We all experience it when we sit down to write, arrange everything just so, type a sentence or two (or a bit more if you’re lucky), and then it strikes—your inner editor. It smacks you across the face and demands that you fix that grammar mist

You are beautiful. I, deformed. A god, no doubt, but not one that they burn fragrant oils to gather the favour of. I am unworthy of you, unworthy of your love. It burns within me, this passion, and yet it burns before me that for all bonds and bindings you will never really love me. Just the idea of me. The lame god, in the forge of souls, hammering shape to metals I have drawn out of lifeless stone. You are beautiful. I, deformed. Cyrano suffered thus, and ultimately it cost him the woman he loved, who would have loved him back, I suspect (ask Apollo, he would know). But he was man and she, woman, we burn at a higher d