You Can’t Edit What Isn’t There

My first entry. The first step. Not sure where the second step is going but what I feel, deep in my soul, is that I’ve been aching to get my experiences out of my heart and onto paper.

Every attempt at writing has been stifled by my own doing.

A personal diary — I get nervous of who could potentially read it that I am never truly honest.

A personal blog — I get too worried about what people will think of me and I am afraid to get negative feedback.

Even know, I am starting to feel inadequate to even think of posting this.

Here is where I am challenging myself. Just write.

“You can’t edit what isn’t there”

“You can’t edit what isn’t there” is the quote that pushed me to create this Medium account. Or at least that was the quote I THOUGHT I heard.

The irony: this post is titled You Can’t Edit What Isn’t There because that is how I remembered the quote after hearing it in a podcast. Those were the words in my head and that is what inspired me. Then after trying to find the original author to give credit, I realized I was misquoting it. The quote was “You can’t edit a blank page” by Jodi Picoult.

And what do you freaking know… it WAS easier to edit once it was already written down. Proof in point. Just write. Who knows, you may end up with your won quote.

“You can’t edit what isn’t there”, courtesy of Rory M. Thomas.