Another fine literary magazine is closing shop. This time it’s Witcraft, an online publication that, for the past couple of years, offered up a daily dose of comic relief in the form of fiction and poetry.
Witcraft founder and editor Doug Jacquier (featured in a recent Friday Five) recently announced his plans in a message to subscribers and on his Substack. He wrote:
Continue reading “Farewell, Witcraft, and thanks for the laughs”‘If you’re roughly 70% happy with a piece of writing you’ve produced, you should publish it.’
Something that sometimes hinders my progress as a writer is this nagging sense that whatever I create must be somehow perfect, and that whatever I’m working on — whether it’s the first draft or the fifteenth — is that maybe I need to remove the comma I inserted last time, or cut a word here or there, or even entire sentences. If I just tweak it a bit, I reason, it will be ready to submit.
(Seems odd to confess this here and now, given my recent post about my tendency to rush to get a story submitted to a publication. (Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself, as Walt Whitman put it.)
A lot of other writers also grapple with their inner perfectionist, so I know I’m not alone.
Anyway, I was heartened to discover a nugget of writing advice to quiet the perfectionist in me.
Continue reading “The 70% solution?”
Andy writes! 