Why the First Draft is the Hardest

Anne Lamott Is Dead Wrong About First Drafts–And That's Not All

Surprisingly good. But I always knew they were just a starting point and I knew they would need more work. For me, any draft is just opening a ...

Why Fast First Drafts Aren't for Everyone - The Write Practice

I whipped through my first draft and focused on just getting what I had in my mind on the page, shoving aside the questions and red flags that my inner editor ...

Writing Memoir: A First Draft. Retching and Moaning All the Way.

Teresa of Avila famously said, it's because “more tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.” Done with purpose, writing is hard work. When you ...

How To Write The First Draft Of Your Novel | The Creative Penn

How To Write The First Draft Of Your Novel · (1) Schedule time blocks for writing – and ONLY write in that time · (2) Find a location that will help you create · ( ...

“The First Draft of Anything Is Shit” - RyanHoliday.net

Because our first effort is rarely good enough. We are too close to our work to see it objectively. And whether we like it or not, the obstacles ...

The First Draft of Anything Is Shit - Advice to Writers

That's the true test of writing. When you can do that, the reader gets the kick and you don't get any. You just get hard work and the better you ...

It's a Start: What Not to Worry About in a First Draft - Fiction University

Every Last Detail. You don't need to have every detail in the draft planned in advance. · Too Many Minor (and Major) Characters · Wild and Inconsistent Emotional ...

A Perfectionist's Guide to a Crappy First Draft - Jeni Chappelle

Writing a better first draft is a balancing act—on the one side you have the desire for the perfect first draft and on the other, the desire to actually finish ...

Stop Glorifying the First Draft and Finish It - Alyssa Hollingsworth

A lot of authors like to bemoan revision, so as a young writer partially through a first draft you can feel a bit like a teen about to be sent ...

Writing The First Draft or "The Ugly Duckling" - AutoCrit Online Editing

Because it takes so long to make progress in the story writing at the pace of only a few pages a day, it's easy to lose your grasp on the overall story arc, ...

Are You Overthinking Your First Draft?

We run into plot holes, creative blocks, stubborn characters, and personal doubts. We want so badly to get our first drafts right—both on the ...

Get Messy With Your First Draft - Writer's Digest

Why does a coherent first draft give birth to a stilted finished product? Because it means you haven't let it flow. You haven't given yourself ...

How I Finished a 70,000+ Novel Rough Draft in a Month and a Half ...

First drafts are for getting the idea out of your head and onto the page so that you can edit it into the story you want later. It is not pretty, and it isn't ...

How to Write a First Draft: Let It Be Bad - TEDxMileHigh

But, bad first drafts also lead to discovery and imagination. In the depth of the woods, where the boundaries disappear and the chatter gets ...

Tip 8: Dealing with a messy first draft - Sophie Writes

The first pass you do on your messy first draft should be thinking about the broader strokes of your story. On this first read, you want to ...

Writing Insights Part Two: The Rough Draft - Hugh Howey

To me, the rough draft is the most difficult part of the writing process. Revising and publishing are the fun and easy parts. I know many other ...

How to edit the first draft of your novel

Letting your first draft suck is actually a lot harder than it sounds. Quite often, the thought that your writing isn't up to the standard ...

I can never seem to get past the first draft. I know revising is ...

The first draft can be an exhilarating experience. You're learning about your characters, their circumstances and the conflict. You're ...

How to write a better first draft | James Hayton's PhD Academy

If you're not thinking about how you're expressing or organising ideas then it's probably very difficult or impossible for the reader to follow.

Writing Tips: Write a First Draft - Pownal Street Press

Kali here, let's talk about drafts. The first one is always the hardest. You never feel like you have the right words. There is a fear that whatever you ...