Writing Chat

[Jassassino]

Writing has been my whole career oddly, but I’ve never really flexed creatively. I’ve done plenty of advertising and marketing copy that I guess would count as “creative” in a sense, but I’ve never really written much for myself.

I think I lack the confidence to really bother. It’s like I’ll write to get paid but if I do anything more than that or something meaningful I might make the terrible mistake of trying or showing exertion, and that would be EXTREMELY embarrassing.

Man it's surprising you haven't. I know you've done a tonne of copy for a living at points, so I thought you'd have a definite creative flex with fiction and/or non fiction.

I think one of the absolute worst things with writing (for me at least) is that, I'll type up all I want and can think of in a pretty quick stream at the time, and when it comes to proofreading it, I'll often wince at how bad it sounds, even though I'm well aware that a first draft is never really "good", I'm always so gutted (for some reason, despite knowing the process lmao) that it's just not as good as I wanted it to be straight out the gate.