Tyler Durden's Rules for Writing in the Zone, part 3 (of 5)

Part 1 is here.
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"only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit"

There is bad destruction and good destruction. Good destruction is the clean ending: knowing when to walk away, make the cut, find resolution and closure. It's the ability to let things go, so that something else may begin.

Creativity is a cycle of destruction and renewal. Old forms get smashed and reinvented, reborn. You trash that manuscript that never sold and take the best...