J. Danielle

In short, your first draft is to extract novel ideas out of your brain. Your second draft is to rewrite those ideas so they resonate.

First drafts tend to be a bit chaotic because writing is, at its core, a process of discovery. When you first put those initial words on the page, you

“The trick to writing well is to... – take long sentences and make them short – take confusing ideas and make them clear – take unrelated con

To return to information overload: this means treating your "to read" pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few