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Publish your first drafts!

Publish your first drafts!

The thrill and risk of showing your work early

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Aug 22, 2022
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I was listening to a recent episode of the excellent podcast Ctrl Alt Delete, featuring guest author Matt Bell talking about his novel writing guide book Refuse to be Done. It’s a very good listen:

Matt and Emma’s points chime with most of the writers I interviewed while producing the Writing Life podcast. Accepted wisdom goes something like this:

  1. First drafts are usually quite bad

  2. This is completely fine, and a necessary part of the process

  3. Redrafting is essential

  4. Books require extensive editing before becoming readable

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