the "low-standard' rough draft is coming along pretty well, though laura -- my main character's first girlfriend, of a sort -- needs some serious character development. so does sam. and so does jon. and so does everybody else.
"welcome to being a writer. here's a blank page. give me a masterpiece." this is basically what every prefectionist writer encounters when he first sets out: his high self-expectations conflicting with the utter hopelessness of his situation and the limitless potential of the blank page. i mean, look at what tolstoy and dumas and poe and doyle did with it; why can't i do that?
my friend, it's because you're just setting out.
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