First Draft
A first draft is a rough bash of a piece of writing. Unlike the 0th-Draft, you know what you want to write about. You might even have a vague idea of the points you want to cover and the structure of the piece. The first draft is not about making the writing perfect, it is about getting the words down so you can set about editing them later.
The first draft of anything is shit. — Ernest Hemingway (probably apocryphal)
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Writing Index
Writers love writing about writing and I’m no different. It does mean that there’s bucket loads of advice out there...
0th draft
Before you sit down to write a [[First-Draft]], you need a sense of what you’re going to write about. But...
Editing is writing
I’ve long since thought that putting words down on page in a [[First-Draft]] is the only writing that really counts...
mess up the blank page
When writing a [[First-Draft]], you should just be trying to mess up the blank page, put words down so you...
Rewrite-the-same-poem-in-different-forms
A way of [[Editing-A-Poem]]. Take your [[First-Draft]] and try writing it in different [[Poetic-form]]s. See what each form does to...
write-first-edit-later
When [[Journaling]] or writing creatively, it is important not to edit as you are writing the [[First-Draft]]. You need to...