“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” -Kurt Vonnegut

In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, flying is described as throwing yourself at the ground and missing. Isn’t that what writing basically is? Making a ridiculous leap, which is, essentially, something very stupid to do, and, by some miracle, making something other people might want to read?

We don’t know how to fly, any of us, before we start. The only way to learn is to just make that jump.

• Hillary’s Weekly Blog Digest for 2009-08-22 http://bit.ly/8rDDO
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• Even Jim Cummings isn’t betting on himself this Emmy season http://bit.ly/1Q206
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• Jim Cummings video interview (Ventura County Star) http://bit.ly/2hLMC9
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• Inspirational Writing Quote of the Week http://bit.ly/18vcmW
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• Jim Cummings video interview from ABC News http://bit.ly/AeILA
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• I’m doing a blog tour. Can I stop by your site? http://bit.ly/TeNuz
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• eBay Partner Network Referral Program makes PowerSellers’ ask themselves: To link or not to l.. http://bit.ly/1tJZBA
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• eBay forces sellers to eat the cost of insurance in a move that ticks me off to no end http://bit.ly/162rF8
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• Automatically send your Facebook status to Twitter with SocialToo Status App http://bit.ly/kdVjb
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• Jim Cummings News: Week in Review (2009-08-28) http://bit.ly/LG4Lb
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• On Twitter: Is there value in distinguishing tweets to your own site from tweets from others? http://bit.ly/fW7hK
  (The Whine Seller) #
• New Facebook to Twitter feature for Pages is a powerful networking tool http://bit.ly/VO23o
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“I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged… I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.” -Erica Jong

I really hope this isn’t what I’m doing.

I feel like there is a difference between wanting to put your best foot forward and having the best version of the story possible together before you send it out and being obsessive for the sake of delaying rejection.