I felt the pull of perfectionism creeping in again. This morning was the third time I had sat down and wrote the first part of (working title) Isaac, Shield Bearer. I kept starting the chapter, writing a few paragraphs, then deleting everything and starting over. It's the trap I always fall into when I start writing, I want to have everything reach some impossible standard and end up posting nothing.
So I finally forced myself to go back to my original self-imposed challenge: post whatever I can write in a single sitting each morning with no chance to just leave it in draft until I polish it. I slapped together a cover and now I've got just shy of a thousand words written. I'll eventually come back and polish things, or maybe do what I did with Sky Pirate and rewrite the entire thing once the rough draft is done, but I want to at least have content coming out.
Submitted to Royal Road, pending approval
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