essentially, i am going to force myself to let things be. when i write, i am going to try to leave what i write without revising ten ways to sunday. i realize not everything up here is perfect, that there are still mistakes and flaws and problems in every post on here. but i have come to a place where i need to start teaching myself to accept those flaws, to learn that everything will never be perfect no matter how hard i try. there will always be a mistake, a flaw, a problem. there will alwys be an awkward turn of phrase, a word left out, a clumsy metaphor. but it is time to let those things be for a while.
my writing may always have come across as off-the-cuff, as though i woke up and spit it out without ever giving it a second thought. that is far from the case. nearly everything here has been rethought, rewritten and revised. i am going to stop that for now. this may result in a precipitous drop in the quality of what is written, but i am forcing myself to be ok with that.
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