: Re: Everyone has a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay. Does that apply to me? Everyone has a book in them, but in most cases that’s where it should stay I'm not

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"Assume that you have a million words inside you that are absolute rubbish and you need to get them out before you get to the good ones."
That's a Neil Gaiman quote, but many other authors have voiced similar ideas. The only way to become a good writer is to write. In other words, the first book you write is going to be garbage*.
But that doesn't mean that it shouldn't be your favorite, most precious idea.
You can't ruin an idea
Up until a book is published, it doesn't exist. By that I mean that it can always be deconstructed and turned into a new, better book. So if there's only one story that you're interested in writing, then write that story. It's okay if it's garbage, because it can always be rewritten into something better.
No one has a single idea in them
I personally strongly disagree with the quote you opened with. Ideas are cheap. Inspiration is everywhere, if you practice looking for it. What you might have is only a single idea that you're interested in telling. If that's the case, then definitely write that story. If you try to write a story you're not interested in then you won't enjoy writing it, and the project will die before it's barely begun, and you'll never write the story you want to tell.

*It is, of course, theoretically possible for your first book to not be garbage. But the likelihood is infinitesimally small and if you assume that you are setting yourself up for disappointment. Remember that every author you see published has a trunk full of discarded novels that they wrote before their 'first' one.

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