i'm wondering if maybe when people say they work best under the suffocating pressure of deadlines--is it just because that's the point when we break through that seal and realize that not everything has to be grandiose and groundbreaking, that now we just have to get it done? i don't really think most stuff comes out best that way; i think it's just that something is finally being produced. when i was in school i made this mistake a lot. even with simple creative writing, i mean, i'd be like, okay! enough. i'd have spent the whole more-than-enough time losing my shit thinking i had to write Something with Meaning, something Great, because even if it was just a school assignment, well, maybe i could expand it and make it into something noteworthy or publishable. well, guess what?
SOMETIMES YOU JUST NEED TO GET THE SHIT DONE. YOU CAN ALWAYS CHANGE THINGS LATER.
this is just a note to self, really; i sound like a high schooler trying to be philosophical, but i'm honestly just reminding myself that if i don't just fucking write already, it's not gonna get written. nobody's coming to save me. i'm not giving advice; i'm the last person qualified to do that at this given moment.
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