No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can’t put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better.

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Erin Bow (via writersrelief)

I like this. 

(via rossettichristina)

Oh, I have written well over a million bad words: two, three, four million easy, that lived under my bed or that I put on the internet or that I sent out to crushing silence/rejection: I laid my head on desks/pillows/floors (bad idea floors, very drafty) and hated those words and that waste, and sometimes I still do, and this idea is very comforting!

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3 months ago | 05:48pm
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