It's not respectful. Trust yourself, and trust your potential reader. When you trust the truth, you can have the courage to write at risk. Trust your intuition, your absurdities, your loves, your hates. Most of all, trust your passions, those extra-strong feelings and urges that flow and surge and pulse with aliveness.
Passion provides momentum, involvement, commitment, action.
From Anybody Can Write, Ideas for the Aspiring Writer, the Beginner, the Blocked Writer, by Roberta Jean Bryant. Copyright 1999 by Roberta Jean Bryant. Excerpted by arrangement with New World Library.