I must allow a first draft to be a first draft.
A first draft is not perfect. It is a draft, a first rough sketch.
If I get stuck in my writing due to problems in the story, I should not care. Not right now. It is a first draft. Write it down. It is no use to anyone in my head.
I must allow myself to write a story that does not hold and whose characters behave strange. Nobody needs to read it. Not yet.
Come on!
Stop care and write. You’ll make it hold later. You’ll make the character the most interesting creatures there is - later.
Don’t worry so much.
It is a first draft. A first draft, you hear me? It is the first time this is written. Nobody expects it to even be readable at this stage.
Yes, there might be too much violence. Yes, nobody might get the story. And YES, there is no setup for the A-bomb popping up out of nowhere.
Write it anyway!
Look at the first half. It’s pretty impressive. You said the same thing back then too.
3 comments:
I know this feeling.
It is difficult to have this grand story in my head and what gets out is hardly readable to anybody but me.
I think all writers over work the story in the first draft.
Then we carve away detail till the story flows.
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