Stop Glorifying the First Draft and Finish It
As a mentee for writers, a critique partner, and person who generally has a lot of friends in very different stages of the author business, I end up talking to a lot of people about their first drafts. Especially their first-manuscript first drafts. The attitude of many first-manuscript writers can be summed up nicely in this graphic, which I’ve grabbed off Pinterest: There’s something very sweet and appealing about this. It reminds me of the sentimental early days of writing, and how every part of it felt like a precious commission, before writing became a hurricane of habit. And there’s […]
