You are lucky if you write a beautiful draft on the first try, the one that’s almost identical as the final draft.
Most of the time, that’s not what happens. Most of the time, your first draft isn’t nearly as pretty as the one you ship.
If writing the beautiful first draft is the way you feel good about yourself and build your confidence, then writing may not be the thing for you. Because the frustration when you don’t get it and self-doubt sabotage the work you set out to do and push you into a tailspin faster than you know. Not helpful at all.
Instead, accepting the ugly first draft believing it will get better with revision and practice, we get to do exactly what we set out to accomplish.
The practice isn’t about the look of the first draft or the second, but the act of putting your thoughts down on paper, over and over again.
