#so please be kinder on yourselves
Reblog this with one thing you want other writers to know.
Whether it be a lesson, advice or a few words of encouragement.
Don’t hate your old writing.
You don’t hate all those scratchy, scribbly scrawls from when you were first learning to even hold a crayon, do you?
So don’t hate the stories and characters and ideas you wrote before—the things you see now as half-baked, or silly, or lame, or even cringe. You don’t have to pick them up again, you can move on and create new things and try new styles and processes, but please: don’t hate your old writing.
It taught you more than you realize.
