The Best Lie
Telling the best LIE to Ourselves may be the Paramount Strategy in dealing with the Lies Of Others.
The following is just one example.
I don't know about other writers, but before I can emotionally commit to writing a novel, and actually devote a year or three years of most of my spare time, I have to actually believe that what I am creating is going to be AWESOME+
Don't get me wrong, writing the first draft of a novel is the most fun I can have with or without my clothes on, but it is the antithesis of easy. To keep me at it requires every wily seductive device I can bring to bear.
The Islamic suicide bomber has his vision of Paradise to press him forward against Israel; I have my somewhat different vision of Paradise to press me forward and sit me down at the computer everyday, to keep me returning to my difficult task. @hg47
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Dec 23, 2012 09:25AM
It's soooo true. By the time I've edited version 4,445,500 it gets pretty hard to keep myself convinced though.
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Sadie wrote: "It's soooo true. By the time I've edited version 4,445,500 it gets pretty hard to keep myself convinced though."Made me laugh, Sadie. Well, if it was easy, everybody would do it. Cheers! @hg47
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