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:
First drafts are usually quite bad
This is completely fine, and a necessary part of the process
Redrafting is essential
Books require extensive editing before becoming readable
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