My writing project for today was pretty simple. I went through my desk and pulled out all of my full notebooks. I reread them and found some really interesting scribbles, that I had completely forgotten about. This particular stash ranges from 6mo-2yrs old.
I guess my point is that your writing journals are invaluable sources of inspiration and even if you scribble something that seems useless at the time, it could develop into something amazing later.
As an example: I wrote a short story when I was 17yrs old. It sat in a drawer for 7yrs and then I rewrote it into one of my favorite pieces of flash fiction.
I would also encourage you that if you're going to scratch something out, just draw a single line through it. I've come back to pieces and decided I liked the bit that I struck out and with only one line through it, its still readable.
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