Writers often have an odd relationship with the first draft. It’s that mixture between excitement and fear, motivation and doubt. It’s easy to pile on the pressure, putting ourselves under a certain level of strain and expectation. That’s why I wanted to share this things to remember while you’re writing a first draft.

The writing is allowed to be bad
A first draft will chop and change between standards of writing. There will be those glorious sentences, the ones that came to you and made you want to write the story in the first place. And there will also be those that you have to put in to move the story, but don’t quite work yet. None of your favourite books were masterpieces after their first draft. Try not to get lost in trying for perfection. Just tell the story, let it suck in places, and keep pushing towards…