First drafts - Austin Kleon
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First drafts - Austin Kleon
Because here’s the big secret. All first drafts suck. That’s what they’re supposed to do. They’re a framework. The bare essentials of your story. The empty walls upon which you must now go back and spread the paint, mount the shelves, and hang the pictures.
D. W. Vogel • Five Minutes to Success: Master the Craft of Writing
In cinema jargon this first version is called the assembly cut, and nobody in their right mind can believe it’ll result in something watchable—or readable if it’s a book. And then, once you’ve overcome the urge to toss the whole thing out, you get down to work, you assemble, juxtapose, cut, add, swap, and try things out
John Lambert • Yoga
If you want to become a great writer, you need to allow yourself to create “junk.”
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But just because it’s a first draft doesn’t mean it can’t be the seed of something valuable.
Jeff Shannon • Lead Engaging Meetings
Writing converts your ideas from vague to bad. But that's a step forward, because once you can see the brokenness, you can fix it.