Debbie Does Drivel

I'm reading a book on how to unleash your creativity. I completely forgot the title, as my brain has been temporarily re-trained to be "wild," and not focus on details like book titles, names, and dates, but rather, aka backa naco schwa.
I like many of the points this author makes (hey Mark -- he used to teach at Santa Clara Univ.), which range from debunking myths like "to be creative, you need to be good at what you are creating," and...um...yeah, I forgot the others...
noona noona bitaghee.
(Just let your mind wander free in the outback of nonsense!)

For me, it's the first "myth" that jacks me up everytime. Too often, I'd rather not write if I'm not guaranteed it's going to be a great piece of work. I cannot bear the thought that I may not be a great writer. Then, there's the issue that well, I'm not a great writer, but to be one, I need to screw up a lot. However, I don't want to produce anything crappy (my blog excluded), and when I do, I hide for a long long time and anti-create (in the form of computer programming, for instance).

I've been paralyzed for a long while writing-wise because I don't want to go through the period of crap prose to get to the pearl prose. But, this book teaches that just the act of creating is enough. It doesn't have to be good, it doesn't have to be readable even, it just has to be you. As long as you are authentic to your voice and trust your mind to go bananas over the nonsense outback and come back with something to say, you're creating. And that should be enough.