More Mostakes
I didn’t mean to make a mistake when I wrote “mistake,” up there, but it fits what this post is all about so why not go with it? This is about purposeful mistakes, breaking the seal, and getting these entries finally flowing.
It’s about making a mistake on purpose so the fear of making one won’t stop me from plowing forward.
I was sitting around pondering things, flipping (despondently) through my little notebook and I saw this on the inside of the front cover:
Something silly I did that was simply to get that first one out of the way. That first mistake. And to make myself laugh. Or chuckle anyway. And then I realized (as I’m sure you’ve no doubt guessed by now) that I don’t have to limit that kind of nonsense to my notebook. I can do that on my personal blog too!
And the coward in me can take solace in the fact that I can delete an entry more cleanly than I can rip out a page in a bound book. (Okay, sure, yes, that’s not true on a technical level, but it is realistically speaking)
Otherwise, I keep writing posts for this blog. Then editing them. And then deciding I don’t think I’m being as clear as I want, or maybe the opposite is true and I’m over-explaining. And these steps— even when only partially done— take so long for me to get through that by the time I think I might have finally made my point, it’s a point I don’t necessarily want to make anymore. Or maybe I just lose my enthusiasm for the subject altogether. And then the longer it takes for me to drag a piece to the endpoint, the better it seems like that piece ought to be when we get there. It’s a classic conundrum. When is good enough good enough? And I’m really getting sick of asking myself that question and always saying “not yet.”
So welcome to natashamuse.com’s first mistake of 2021: Because when you're learning to walk it’s more important to get your feet in front of you than it is to chose which one to start with
