The first draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers.

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I LOVE that framing.

A first first draft is to get it written and feel like you accomplished something. Step 2 is obsessive self-editing 🤣

slick, i love this wording

ooo, I like that

I want to print these encouraging words of yours out and wallpaper my house with them. Thank you so much for sharing.

This is why my book's first draft is so long...

Put it on a poster. Perfect.

I think it was Anne Lamott who called it the "down draft," as in "the only job of this draft is to get it down." Stephen King said it as, "you write the first draft with the door closed, the second draft with the door open."

This works for songwriting. The ridiculous things I say in the first draft of a song compared to how I would perform in front of people, is like night and day. The “absurd” gets me the interesting* thought, and that thought inspires the language that properly* expresses the feeling. *subjective