![]() ![]() ![]() “Writing-I can really only speak to writing here-always, always only starts out as shit: an infant of monstrous aspect bawling, ugly, terrible, and it stays terrible for a long, long time (sometimes forever). “It doesn’t matter if it’s good right now, it just needs to exist.” - Austin Kleon ![]() “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” - Kurt Vonnegut It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.” - Barbara Kingsolver Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you figure out what you have to say. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. “If you are willing to do something that might not work, you’re closer to being an artist.” - Seth Godin The solution is never to sit down and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent.” - Malcolm Gladwell “I think the trouble starts when you sit down to write and imagine that you will achieve something magical and magnificent - and when you don’t, panic sets in. No one ever sees those words.” - Mary Jaksch “In the first draft, I write for myself, and always with the door closed. Get the story down however you can get it down, then fix it.” - Neil Gaiman And that’s the thing that you may be agonizing over, but honestly, whatever you’re doing can be fixed…For now, just get the words out. No one is ever going to see your first draft. One way you get through the wall is by convincing yourself that it doesn’t matter. “For me, it’s always been a process of trying to convince myself that what I’m doing in a first draft isn’t important. “The first draft reveals the art revision reveals the artist.” - Michael Lee “To become a proper writer, you have to forgive yourself the catastrophe of the first draft.” -Alain de Botton “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” ―Terry Pratchett “I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into a box, so that later, I can build castles.” - Shannon Hale Then take out as many of the excesses as you can.” - Anne Lamott Write an incredibly shitty, self-indulgent, whiny, mewling first draft. Let it pour out of you and onto the page. “Most times, I’ll just sit there, suffer, write shitty sentences, and hope I can make the next draft less putrid.” - Daniel Pink Even though I try to be pretty thoughtful about figuring out what I want to say before I write, you still have to see how concepts play on page to decide if they deserve to stay.” - Cal Newport “I probably end up tossing out a quarter of what I write in the first draft of a book chapter. Blurt out, heave out, babble out something - anything - as a first draft…Until it exists, writing has not really begun.” - John McPhee “Sometimes in a nervous frenzy I just fling words as if I were flinging mud at a wall. “I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them-without a thought about publication -and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.” - Anne Tyler It may be bad, but it’s the only way you can do anything really good.” - William Faulkner “The first draft of anything is shit.” - Ernest Hemingway It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or a professional, writes Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird, when you first sit down to write something new, “We all often feel like we are pulling teeth.” If you’re struggling with a first draft of your novel or screenplay, you might find encouragement in these quotes from famous writers:
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