"Don’t look at this early stage for every sentence to be perfect—that will come. Don’t expect every..."

“Don’t look at this early stage for every sentence to be perfect—that will come. Don’t expect every description to be spot-on. That will come, too. This is an opportunity to experiment. It’s your giant blotter. An empty slate, ready to be filled. It’s an opportunity to try out dialogue, to create situations, to describe a summer’s evening. You’ll read it back to yourself and you’ll see what works, you’ll see what doesn’t. But this is a building site, and it’s not meant to be pretty, tidy, or even safe. Building sites rarely are.


But every great building began as one.”

- Jasper Fforde, on why becoming a writer requires practice.