"First, I cannot stress enough the importance of simply allowing yourself a draft. When I write, I often get mired down in the need to self-edit every sentence as I go. When I first started writing papers and stories, that meant I rarely had a first draftor final draft. Writing two versions of the same thing seemed like way more work than writing something once. However, I ended up writing that one draft so slo-o-owly that it took me far longer than writing three drafts of a paper does now. The reason for this is that a first draft often turns out better than you think it is when you’re writing it. So type with abandon, type like the wind, and don’t let questions of grammar or phrasing or vocabulary hold you back. You can vanquish writer’s block by writing everything that comes into your head, even if you think it’s beyond awful at the time. You can always fix it later, though you may find that, more often than you think, you won’t have to do so."
This is good advice from Betsy Cornwell writing in the Teen Ink Newsletter this week.
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