kaylewiswrites:

dramaticvoiceover:

reminder to everyone writing a first draft that a lot of the writing advice floating around is geared toward much later along in the writing/editing process 🙂

Seriously the most important thing you can do with a first draft is just write it don’t waste any creative brain power thinking about passive voice or character voices or chapter breaks. That’s all problems for Future You.

On first drafts, write, don’t think

promptdumpster:

“How do you do it?”

“How do I do what?”

“Pretend you are okay.”

“I’m not pretending.”

“Yes you are, every single day. And it breaks my heart.”