Is it possible you’re working too hard to perfect it the worst time around do you have a rough draft that you can be ashamed of just to get it out of your head?
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Omg you’re so right?? I get this tight nausea feeling in my chest whenever I try to write it and I’m overwhelmed by feelings of shame and guilt bc I haven’t “succeeded” yet, so it stops me from even getting a rough draft done
Your first draft is supposed to be an absolute mess! It’s part of the process, it helps you figure out what works thematically and character-wise the scaffolding it can be pretty later, I’m on my third draft of one of my stories rn and it’s night and day let me tell you 😭
I mean I’ve wrote and rewrote it so often, but never a full draft, I have no idea how to get myself to write it out like I feel so stuck with it- I have all of this info in my head and no ability to express it
I mean even if it’s like a badly written skeleton that’s what my first draft was like he said this she did this something a little like this bc it just helps u begin to form the story but that’s just how I do it
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