I think it's awesome when something starts out like crap.
As always, I'm gonna relate this to art. :P
My drawing teacher always tells us about Leonardo worked. There's a painting of his in a museum somewhere that lets you walk behind and see the back of the work. When you look, you see a million different lines. He drew so many lines because they were all wrong. But because he kept making all those lines and seeing what didn't work, he eventually found himself drawing the perfect line that he wanted. So, then he traced that line onto the front of the painting and got started on the thing he really wanted to make.
I think NaNo seems like all of those wrong marks. But you need them in order to find what's finally going to work. Even if a preliminary sketch, or draft, is really really bad, it doesn't matter. Only you see it.
And I think a lot of times, if something starts out kind of bad, you're all the more ready to make it better and into what you really want it to be. I know when I start something and it's coming along great from the start, there will ALWAYS come that point where I freak out that I'm going to ruin it, or I DID ruin it, and I get nervous about working on it more.
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As always, I'm gonna relate this to art. :P
My drawing teacher always tells us about Leonardo worked. There's a painting of his in a museum somewhere that lets you walk behind and see the back of the work. When you look, you see a million different lines. He drew so many lines because they were all wrong. But because he kept making all those lines and seeing what didn't work, he eventually found himself drawing the perfect line that he wanted. So, then he traced that line onto the front of the painting and got started on the thing he really wanted to make.
I think NaNo seems like all of those wrong marks. But you need them in order to find what's finally going to work. Even if a preliminary sketch, or draft, is really really bad, it doesn't matter. Only you see it.
And I think a lot of times, if something starts out kind of bad, you're all the more ready to make it better and into what you really want it to be. I know when I start something and it's coming along great from the start, there will ALWAYS come that point where I freak out that I'm going to ruin it, or I DID ruin it, and I get nervous about working on it more.
Crap is awesome for working with.