First drafts - Austin Kleon
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First drafts - Austin Kleon
You write a shitty first draft of it and you sound it out, and you leave in those lines that ring true and take out the rest. I wish there were an easier, softer way, a shortcut, but this is the nature of most good writing: that you find out things as you go along. Then you go back and rewrite. Remember: no one is reading your first drafts.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Writing tip: The belief that the 1st draft must be good makes working on it an intimidating prospect that often leads to paralysis. So let the 1st draft be junk; it should be purely about getting from start to finish, nothing more. You really write the piece when you rewrite it.
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Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something— anything—down on paper.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
"In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Never create and edit at the same time. Get all the sloppy, ugly roughs and first drafts out. Quantity is more important than quality at the start. Mess is more.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
all I had to do was to write a really shitty first draft of, say, the opening paragraph. And no one was going to see it.