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
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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
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.
Anne Lamott • Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
Make stuff every day. Know you’re going to suck for a while.
Austin Kleon • Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative (Austin Kleon)
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