Try to be terrible-r please

Trick your brain into seeing just how much you are in our own writerly way

Time for a variation of this ol’ chestnut again, because it’s perfect anytime:

Write the worst possible thing you can manage to write, and write it about the work that you do or aspire to do. Make it really, really terribly written, and be sure to identify key elements to botch or leave out.

Sounds ridiculous, to be sure, but it’s also a bit of a trick to get the hell out of your own way. When we set off to write under the auspices of writing badly, that snotty part of our brains that tells us we’re not good enough and that gets us caught up in perfectionism to the point that the blank page gets intimidating? Nowhere to be found. G’head. Try it for yourself.