"If your process is anything like mine, your inner perfectionist will have reared their head to..."

“If your process is anything like mine, your inner perfectionist will have reared their head to demand you fix that small error on page two, and that continuity issue in chapter three, oh, and how about that characterization snafu, and maybe you should get rid of the entire first act of the book, oh, and, and, and.

 

Get rid of that voice. This is not yet the time for perfection. This is the time for creativity instead.

 

It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be written.

 

It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be written.

 

It doesn’t have to be perfect. It just has to be written.”

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Marieke Nijkamp is a storyteller, dreamer, globe-trotter, geek. Her debut young adult novel This Is Where It Ends follows four teens during the fifty-four minutes of a school shooting.

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