Revise until it’s not a bad book.” The Wonders of the “Vomit Draft” To begin, give yourself permission to write a bad book.Ģ. The famous Barbara Kingsolver quote says it all: They’re terrible.īut that doesn’t bother me because I know I can edit them until they aren’t terrible. I can tell you, as a professional writer who has written multiple New York Times best-sellers, my first drafts are utter garbage. Most beginning authors have this notion that professional writers put out amazing first drafts, or that their first draft has to be really good. Give yourself permission to write a mediocre first draft. When you sit down to write, you need to do something very simple but very powerful: Give Yourself Permission to Write a Mediocre First Draft Then, if that is still daunting to you, I will tell you about how to add the Scribe Method on to the Vomit Draft Method, which makes tackling your first draft even easier. In this post, I will walk you through the best method for writing your first draft (we call it the Vomit Draft Method). It addresses and breaks through the mindset issues that hold beginning Authors back, and makes it a lot easier and faster for most people to write a book. That’s why we developed the Scribe Method. The problems tend to arise more with the mindset around writing than with the writing itself. Nor is the problem that they don’t know how to write. The problem is rarely that Authors don’t know how to express their ideas. They usually have a lot of really bad ideas about what their first draft is supposed to be like and how they are supposed to write it-and these ideas end up keeping them from ever finishing (or even from starting in some cases). One of the biggest hurdles beginning writers have to face is the first draft.
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