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  • Giving early drafts substance with plain text

    Early drafts aren’t about getting it right. It’s easy to drift into the habit of thinking the first few drafts of any piece of work should be good. That you need to spend time crafting your sentences, improving grammar, and correcting spelling. Only, it’s unlikely that your initial thoughts are going to be any good.…

  • The first draft is the hardest

    Getting the first version of your writing out of your head and onto the page is difficult. Writing the first draft of anything is the most difficult part, and in my experience it’s because our expectations of the first draft are too high; we want the first draft to be ‘good’. The way to do…