Writer's Dreams and Stranger Things

I adore Anne Lamott. Quote of the day:

"I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each steppping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking will do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it." Bird by Bird, "Perfectionism"

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Also from Bird by Bird:

One writer I know tells me that he sits down every morning and says to himself nicely, "It's not like you don't have a choice, because you do - you can either type or kill yourself."...Now, Murial Spark is said to have felt she was taking diction from God every morning - sitting there, one supposes, pugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile and aggressive position. One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this.

All right: on to my "shitty first draft." See you in a few hours (or days, if the writing is really not flowing!).