Status Updates From Bird by Bird: Some Instruct...

1. Publishing isn't the thing that will give you satisfaction. Consider the journey to publication "enough".
2. You have to be "enough" before you do the big things/get the reward/etc., because those things will not make you feel any more enough afterwards.
3. Publication can be a painful process.

I am enjoying the reminder that mastery starts with being shitty at something, consistently practicing, and getting better. In anything we want to do, especially in writing, we have to get over our inner critics to allow the shitty first draft to come to light so that we can get to the second more refined draft and eventually to the eloquent final draft that we can choose to publish. Start small, tiny experiments.

A little bit of that irreverence from earlier in the book is back in play towards the end as well. Her wit comes at you from the side and it's great! But someone show her how an oxford comma works!!!