The plan must never be to have a plan

My writing process is typically thus: I will bang out a stream of consciousness first draft, getting everything that I think I want to say out of my head and into text; I will then read over that first draft and realise it’s not right. The fact is that while I may have had an idea of what I wanted to say, the piece iteslf has no fucking clue what it’s about. In fact, it’s garbage. I suck and should never write again; I must now leave it for a day. Or a week. Or a month. And then, if I feel up to it, I will come back; Usually I select-all-and-delete, then try and write a plan to actually figure

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