#first draft

[morally-earl-gray]

"he would not fucking say that" and "he wouldnt do that" and "this mischaracterization is horrendous" but its an author rereading the beginning chapters of their first draft

[luna-azzurra]

Your First Draft Is Supposed to Be Awful

Somewhere, in some cursed corner of the internet, a writer whispered the dangerous idea that your first draft should be… good. And like all bad ideas, it spread. Suddenly, everyone’s trying to make their draft read like it could be printed and shelved in the bookstore tomorrow. Which is ridiculous.

Your first draft isn’t a book. It’s… well, it’s barely even a thing. It’s the ugly braindump you slap down before the real work begins. The plot doesn’t make sense yet. Half the characters sound the same. There’s a paragraph in chapter six you don’t even remember writing. And that’s totally fine.

Right now, your only job is to get the story out of your head and onto a page before it rots in there. Forget about making it pretty or “good.” You’ll get to that later. <3

[flarefloofer]

I reached the fucking google doc character limit.

I DIDNT EVEN KNOW THAT WAS POSSIBLE WHAT?!??!?!?

[aetherityart]

🥇First draft of First!!! 🥇

More to come???????? 👀

Hear me out!!!!!! HE HAVE STUBBLE!!!! *poses like Chris Pratt fending off the dinosaurs*

[solarsthoughts]

gentle reminder that you shouldn’t let yourself get “stuck” while writing your first draft.

because guess what? it’s your FIRST DRAFT. it doesn’t matter what it looks/reads like. so skip that part that you’re stuck on and make a note to come back to it later. change the plot line if you need to. just KEEP WRITING.

[lannegarrett]

Me reading my first draft:

[wyrm-house]