Fuel for Iteration
You can't edit a blank page. A bad first draft is a concrete starting point, a tangible something to refine, improve, and shape into your final vision.
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Stuck staring at a blank page (or project)? The "ugly first draft" isn't just for writers. It's permission to be imperfect, defeat procrastination, and get started on anything. Stop editing, start creating!
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Jordan Peterson's Rules of Thumb for Writing
- Your first draft should be 25% longer than your final draft. This will give you material to throw away during the editing process.
- Each paragraph in your final draft should be about 10 sentences or 100 words long. If your paragraph is much shorter than this, that is ...
The first draft
The first words you write are the first draft. Writing is thinking. You'll rarely know what exactly you want to say when you start writing.
The time you put into editing, reworking and refining turns your first draft into a second draft, and then into a third. If you keep refining it o...
Give it some space
When you write something, you get very close to it. It is nearly impossible to distance yourself from it straight away to edit properly.
The longer you can leave a draft before editing, the better. Half an hour to two days is enough of a break to edit well. When you do edit, read your ...
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