Goal of the day: 379 words. Written: 404.
The only thing worse than a bad text is an incomplete text. And no, "sometimes it's better not to write than to write nonsense" is not a good idea, because that way neither the idea will get out into the world, nor will it be criticised for being stupid and poor.
It is better to write and publish a text than to leave it to moulder forever.
Imagine: sitting at his desk, opening an unfinished text. There's a cup of tea or coffee steaming nearby, but its presence doesn't help you much. With or without the pot, your mind is empty. Empty-here. You started a new story, article or poem a week ago, but didn't finish it that day. And now you're sitting there trying to remember what, under the thunderstorms, you came up with that was so good to finish.
Is this situation familiar to you? If you call yourself a writer, a poet or a copywriter, I guess so. The frustration caused by unfinished texts should be so deeply engraved in your memory that you will never forget it.
Unfortunately, I can't tell you how you should end the text.
I don't know what you wanted to write, though. Did you tell me? M? You didn't!
So... I'll suggest a few ideas so that unfinished texts don't just get born:
- Write quickly. Like Schumacher, like lightning, like that idiot pushing a cart full of goods in your direction. Write so fast that your text contains a million and a half mistakes... but you don't lose your ideas.
- Write furiously. Like a bull overwhelmed by anger and adrenaline, like a man who sees someone hanging your lover in a bar, like a great brown orc, eager to destroy all who do not join his Horde. Write with such fierceness that you don't notice the million mistakes in your text... And at the same time you can open up your sincere abra-cadabra of thoughts.
- Write mystically. Like Merlin, like Doctor Strange, like Leonardo Da Vinci. Use all the magic and all the technical know-how you have and put it in your text. Don't let the ideas slip away... Because once they slip away, you can't get them back.
- Write dictatorially. Like Stalin, Erdoğan or Mao Zedong. If you can't think of something to write, go to jail. Write, write, and then [[I will write something here later]]. Yes - that's it. Put double square brackets in the text where you will add something later... So that it is a reminder to yourself.
- Write childishly. Just like you when you were five, as Finn the Human this morning. Relax - you don't need to be serious, and you don't need to write according to some rules. Do you think your readers are robots? Then let the robots write! Better create new words and phrases... Because you won't get tired of writing like that.
Combine them and you'll never see all your texts finished. Just like I'm finishing this one now.
And what to do about mistakes?
Well, give them to the editors to correct, of course. Since when do authors have to correct their own mistakes, silly? 😉
Not corrective,
Daniel