The first draft isn’t supposed to be good. It’s supposed to exist. Every writer you admire wrote something messy before they wrote something great. Permission to write the bad one is permission to start.

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Even Murakami says his first drafts are a mess and he just revises and revises. If one of the greats gives himself permission to write badly first, the rest of us can too. what is a scene or line you only got to because you let the bad version exist first?