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Sophistication and polish and complexity are not for the first draft. Period. Your first draft is meant to be the rough, crappy one. It's getting your ideas out. You are letting the perfect become...
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2019-12-13T12:00:46Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T07:03:44Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
Sophistication and polish and complexity are not for the first draft. Period. Your first draft is _meant_ to be the rough, crappy one. It's getting your ideas out. You are letting the perfect become the enemy of the good — you're so worried about making it awesome that you aren't allowing yourself to make anything at all. Do not worry about your diction. Do not worry about efficiency. They are not the point in a first draft. First drafts can be littered with TK (meaning "to come"), [TECH], "angry dialogue here," EXPLAIN PLAN, and so on. You can have actual placeholders and _not write a chunk of the scene at all_ if that helps you get your entire draft on paper so you can work with it. Stop fussing and write.
#1: Imported from external source
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2017-09-27T01:47:14Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 3