Write with the right brain, edit with the left brain. Your draft will be a dumpster fire. That's what the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th phases are for. Too many authors want to do it all in one phase and come out with a polished manuscript.
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Most authors treat writing like an art instead of a respectable profession, and it shows. If you're suffering over your book, you're doing it wrong. And you're gonna stay broke.
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Firm believer in getting the crap out the first time. My first few writings were good in the moment reading them a few days later "What was I thinking ?!"
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Write with the right brain, edit with the left brain. Your draft will be a dumpster fire. That's what the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th phases are for. Too many authors want to do it all in one phase and come out with a polished manuscript.
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"The very first draft isn't even rough. This is your toilet draft." So it goes roughage draft, then rough draft?

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I liken it to a pottery expert first making their own clay. Which really sucks as a writer but that's what the first draft is - the clay to mold your story from.
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This mindset sounds familiar.

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It’s because the toilet draft gets an A in college nowadays.
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Your advice is helping me get through my first novel. I’m just trying to unroll one full story arc before I even worry about quality or coherence.
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