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THE DELAY DEBATE?

Blog City Prompt: "You may delay, but time will not" or "Delay is preferable to error." Now write or write later.

Or as they say, "Time waits for no man." Writing is usually a solitary action, art, profession, hobby, obsession. The rush of time includes distractions, responsibilities, all the things in life that suck the writing time away from you.

If you delay when the time is available, the fleeting benefit of not facing the blank page, the uncompleted poem or story is probably the source of more inner turmoil. I'm not talking about forced delays we all have those. It's those moments when you say, "Why do today, when I can put it off until tomorrow?"

Now the idea that delay is preferable to error. Not with writing. The whole point is to get the ideas down, however rough. First drafts are ugly, but filled with rich ideas, or vague visions of something that later will become beautiful.

Lots of people say that time is speeding up. I believe that. The time between Sunday and Friday is about two days long. Have you noticed? I say, "Write it now, you may never get the time again!"

Write on...>>>iggy


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