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Be bad on purpose

Be bad on purpose

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Be bad on purpose

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- When writing my book, "The CSS Detective Guide," my inner critic was so strong at one point that I was totally blocked. But, because I was on a tight deadline, I didn't have time to wallow in it. I had to figure out a way to kick my writing back into gear. In order to trick and hack my creative brain, I did this, I gave myself permission to be bad. I told myself, "Okay, I'm going to write a really bad sentence. "Then, I'm going to write an awful paragraph. "And this whole chapter just won't be good." When I made it okay to not be perfect, brilliant, and clever, I opened up the space for something to come out, and then I could work with whatever that was. The irony? The really bad writing that I allowed myself wasn't actually all that bad. And, in retrospect, I realized that no matter whether I wrote something good or not, it would still have to be edited. Being bad on purpose totally takes off the mental pressure.…

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