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Aidan Moher
@aidanmoher.com

The first draft is for telling yourself the story, revisions are for telling your readers.

Mary Robinette Kowal@maryrobinettekowal.com

I don't like "Your first draft will be shitty" as advice, because it's a really negative framing. I prefer, "You have the freedom to be messy creating your first draft." Anyone crafter knows what their room looks like mid-creation. Writers should be as free to be as exhuberent and messy.

Adrian Tchaikovsky
@aptshadow.bsky.social

Whilst there is often expositional scaffolding I take out that was just for me, I feel writing with the reader’s perspective in mind from the start is more efficient.

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