Yesterday (or was it the day before?), I sat down for the first time in awhile to try to write on one of my faery tales. Ugh. It was just awful. I wrote several pages, but it just wasn't any good at all. Maybe if I go back over it I will find it wasn't as bad as I thought. But I doubt it.

Times like this, I realize that I need to sometimes just sit down and write things that don't matter as much to me. That's the problem with Elixir and this faery tale for me: I care too much about them. Granted, I have to admit that Elixir is not exactly great writing or a great story, but it is my first attempt at getting through an entire book, and as such...it matters to me. I know it's not great, but I want it to be as good as possible.

That's why writing exercises are good things. I guess I should do some, huh?