Perfect Writing

perfect writing isn't
sitting down
and typing your book
its messy
late nights with too much coffee
finding inspiration
at the most inconvenient times
scenes written on old napkins
and the backs of receipts
its writing
and REwriting
wondering if there's a point
to writing at all
pulling out your hair
because you just cant get it right
and in the end
writing it for yourself
because for you
your characters are alive
to me
that is perfect writing

Reviews

[melissa]

I agree with Jake I love the poem everything wrote in this poem is so true

[Jake Donald Stephens]

What I've come to think is.....perfect writing can only be done by other people. Even if I write something and it's the best thing I've ever written and it's the absolute best I can make it right now, it's still not good enough. There's always another level to strive for.
Good thing everybody's not me, or no books would ever be published.
But I think that, as long as you're satisfied with your writing, that's good enough. Like you said, you write it for yourself anyway, to please yourself, and if the characters are alive to you and mean something to you, then that's really as good as it gets.

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