First Draft Secrets: Five Simple Steps. A guest post by Marla Beck If you’re anything like me, sometimes writing a first draft can be a huge struggle.
On some level we may be busy “just writing,” but on another level, we’re often working hard to ignore, silence or simply drown out our mind’s chatter. No wonder we sometimes resist writing and finishing our first drafts! It’s not always easy to split our attention between writing and “mind-management.” To write a useful, “flavorful” first draft, it helps to have a helpful mindset and a few tools to help us focus. Writing your first draft - www.fiction-writers-mentor.com. Writing your first draft can seem a daunting prospect. When you're faced with a blank screen, and knowing that you have to write 100,000-or-so words, it can be scary. This page aims to help you with that.
I'm glad to tell you that writing your first draft successfully is, in many ways, just a matter of attitude and thought process. Sure, you need the technical skills (as shared on the rest of this website). The Writer's Center.