first draft – catsignal

Quotable 489

I’m writing a first draft and reminding myself that I’m simply shoveling sand into the sandbox so that later I can build castles.
– Rachel Stirling

When I finish a first draft, it’s always just as much of a mess as it’s always been. I still make the same mistakes every time.
– Michael Chabon

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.
– Terry Pratchett

All of the writers you love are writing bad first drafts. That’s how we come to find our characters and voices and truth.
– Anne Lamott

It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
– Will Shetterly