Shitty First Drafts Quote
"Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts."
Shitty First Drafts
Quote : "The first draft is the child's draft, where you let it all pour out and then let it romp all over the place, knowing that no one is going to see it and that you can shape it later." Question : Can one feel confident enough in their first draft to propose it as their final draft?
When I look at my first efforts, they are terrible.
ReplyDeleteBut no good writing came of them. The good writing that eventually followed bore no resemblance to the original draft.
How similar does the initial project have to be to the final to really say it's the beginning of the other?
Terrible first efforts are defined by the absence of good. If a first effort is absent anything good, it has to be changed so dramatically to become good writing that it's difficult to say that the first effort began the good writing. You shouldn't ignore quality on your first draft. Bad writing can be salvaged in the edit, good writing can be made fantastic.