Sentences with phrase «terrible first draft»

There's one writing piece of advice that has been passed around so many times that it's become a cliché: it doesn't matter if you write a terrible first draft.

As St. Anne says, write that terrible first draft.

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott Passionate, relentlessly ambitious Jo is probably a perfectionist when it comes to writing, so I think she could benefit from Anne Lamott's famous advice about terrible first drafts.

Even born writers write terrible first drafts.

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Not exact matches

I beta read sometimes, but due to my «day job» of freelance line editor, I'm a terrible beta reader for rough drafts (unless you're the type to produce pretty clean first drafts).

As they hand you their work they will say something like «It's a first draft» or some other safety net to let you know that they think it's terrible, so if you think so too, that's why.

To complete your book, you need to get to a half - decent (or even terrible) first draft.