first draft Archive

I’m trying to convince myself to treat my first draft like a first draft. So far, the early going has been plagued by second-guessing and worries – but it’s mostly worries about dialogue and description, which is a good thing. …

One of the reasons I started this project was because I was frustrated with authors talking about finishing a book in X number of days, as if only the days writing the first draft counted. In my experience, the first …