Monday, October 7, 2013

First Draft

Read Haggai 1-2

Haggai 2:16 "Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty."

As we write our first draft, we can’t help but see how awful it is. It’s tempting to stop and correct as we go, but that doesn’t work for every writer.

Some never get past the first few sentences, paragraphs or pages because of all the imperfections constantly found. Some get so discouraged they give up completely, especially for a book-length project.

But it’s important to get that first draft onto the page, even if it means we write badly. Writing can be fixed, no matter how bad it is, but a blank page will never be good enough to be published.

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