photo by Zsuzsanna Kilián

I’m posting a special edition of the Rerun today. With NaNoWriMo kicking off this past week, I was expecting a kind of “radio silence” on Twitter and the blogs of those writers participating in National Novel Writing Month. I was very wrong. If anything, there’s been even more tweeting and blog writing – and a lot of talk about starting to write that first draft. So today’s special post is an ode to just that – here’s to the first draft.

Your first draft is always going to suck by Alexandra Sokoloff 

5 Benefits of Writing a Truly Awful, Lousy First Draft by Martha Alderson on Plot Whisperer

Tips for First Drafting by Natalie Whipple on Between Fact & Fiction

Get It Written First, Right Second by Jennifer Blanchard on Procrastinating Writers

Writing a First Draft by Rachelle Gardner on Rants & Ramblings

The Zen of First (Zero) Drafts by Justine Larblaestier

first drafts by Brian Yanksy on Writer Talk

Shitty First Draft by Hidden in France

Walking Through the Flames of Rough Draft Hell by Ken Robert on Mildly Creative

In Praise of the Zero Draft by Liz Massey on Write Livelihood

And my own post from the 13 Ways of Looking at the Novel series: The Perfect Rough Draft


lara
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