Showing posts with label writing first drafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing first drafts. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

First Drafts

To paraphrase from Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird" --

Writers don't bound along huskies writing great prose, they all begin by writing really, really shitty first drafts. It's a messy, but necessary, step in getting to that great prose.